Sidebar: Tips for Coping With Disasters

By Lucas Mearian

April 19, 2004 12:00 PM ET

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Choose vendors that are proactive and don't require prodding to upgrade or test your disaster recovery plan.

Don't test people; test your disaster recovery plan. People come and go. Make the plan easy to follow and use.

After a disaster, don't count on employees being willing to fly to alternate work sites.

Distribute key disaster recovery personnel across many geographic locations.

Turn disaster recovery data centers into active work sites.

Disaster recovery plans are living, breathing things. Keep them up to date and make sure employees are well versed in them.

Seek vendors with plenty of longevity and geographically dispersed offices for disaster recovery.

Make sure portals to your outsourcing vendor are dedicated or have enough bandwidth to handle multiple companies seeking fast restores.

Make sure that not just your vendor but you understand how to back up and restore systems.

Verify that backup tapes can restore data.

Train and involve all IT personnel in the disaster recovery process.

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