Do you have a Disaster Recovery Plan in place in your company? Does your staff know what it is and what to do to keep it up to date? How long can you go without your company's data and survive?
If you lost all of the data on your server and all of your project files, how would you survive? Could you piece together how much is owed to you and who you owe? What about employee records and payroll information? Your business and your income could suddenly cease to exist.
A disaster recovery plan is a necessary part of your business and is only as good as the person or people who keep the plan up to date. What and where is your plan? Do you have one in place? If not, you are taking a huge risk and stand to lose more than just time away from your business. You stand to suffer a huge financial loss.
What happens in your business if disaster strikes? Flood, fire, hurricane, tornado, theft, server crash, or any other disaster that would otherwise destroy your records. You need to have a plan in place in case of a disaster so that you can restore your data and your business back to what it was prior to the disaster so that you can continue to go about business as usual.
You should at the very least have a back up copy of your data off site. You should have a scheduled back up time, preferably daily of your data files and you should have a way of verifying the validity of your back ups to be sure you have a viable back up away from your primary place of business.
If you don't have someone on site to do your back ups daily, you might want to look up a company that can do it for you and get it set up. There are plenty of companies that will get you set up in the 'cloud' so that your back ups are happening. There are other advantages to cloud computing such as access to your data files from anywhere and the fact that they back up to redundant servers in different geographic locations of the country.
Timberline, Quickbooks and other accounting software should be backed up everyday regardless of any other scheduled back up you have in place. Get our disaster recovery plan set up today. Don't waste another day with the fear of disaster looming over your business.
Take the time today to get your business disaster recovery plan in place.
Charlene S Reed.Owner/Author
"Construction Administration Handbook"
www.MyConstructionOffice.com
I have to agree with you, Charlene! DRP also enables the management to further understand the minutia of the business. Creating a data recovery plan involves evaluating the business’ weaknesses and strengths. This helps the business to identify approaches that can correct inconsistencies.
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