IT Systems Backup as Part of Disaster Recovery Plan
In modern day environment, being prepared to face any sort of risk or crises and ensuring that precautions are taken has become imperative. Any crises or disaster can hit the Organization in all or some of the functions or departments. However Disaster Recovery and Business continuity plans help identify various risks in each and every function and be prepared to manage the crises as and when they arrive.
More importantly the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DR & BC) plans help recover the business process or function and resume business in shortest time possible, thus helping the Organization to honor its business commitments despite such disasters.
Every Organization big or small uses IT and Communication systems to manage its operations. Most of the critical data including financial, sales, customer data and all transactions are stored in the systems.
IT System failure is one of the high risk areas that needs to be looked into by the DR & BC planners. IT systems include all kinds of hardware including laptops, desktops, servers and other equipments including LAN and other networks as well as communication equipments and connectivity.
IT Systems are very sensitive to the environment as well as to power fluctuation and hence tend to breakdown or get corrupted easily. They are also subject to hardware failure as well as external virus attacks etc.
The risk of IT disasters is very high and critical in IT companies which are highly dependent upon various systems and softwares. Besides IT and technology companies, service companies like banks and airlines as well as credit card companies etc are also highly dependent upon IT systems and as such their businesses cannot tolerate any downtime. In such situations the Organizations bank upon effective DR & BC Plans to fall back upon for immediate recovery in full or in part.

Data loss is one of the major risks under IT Systems risks that the Organizations are exposed to. Therefore DR & BC Plans have got to look at various ways and means of protecting the data loss. Some of the data recovery options are discussed hereunder.
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