Sidebar: Tips for Coping With Disasters
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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.
Read more about disaster recovery in Computerworld's Disaster Recovery Knowledge Center.
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