5 Backup and Disaster Recovery Resources and Printables for Businesses

Hunting for the right backup and disaster recovery product for your business is an enormous task, and educating your staff about the solution, and why it’s so important, and how to maintain BDR best practices, may prove to be an even more difficult task. Here you will find a collection of resources and printables to help introduce, and educate your team about backup and disaster recovery. Disaster Planning is not a one-time event, it is an ongoing process. Use these resources to maintain a comprehensive business continuity plan, a disaster recovery plan and words of encouragement when times get tough.

1. Infotech.com warns businesses to “Not wait until disaster recovery (DR) is invoked to discover weaknesses in DR processes. Run a full test of the enterprise DR plan to uncover flaws before an event knocks out IT systems for good.” Their downloadable tool helps DRP project managers capture the elements involved with DRP and record, The main documentation created for the DRP so far, and test scenarios, assignation of duties, and results of actions.

2. Finding the right backup and disaster recovery solutions feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. Check out this free, printable resource, Solution Review’s 2016 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution Vendor Buyer’s Guide, take it to the office, share it with colleagues, and impress your boss with your vendor mastery.

3. Xsolutions.com provides a free Disaster recovery plan template to help businesses plan for the unknown. XSolutions provides convenient, fast, expert computer support services to small businesses.

4. Techtarget.com offer a free business continuity template for businesses and team that is a downloadable document that teams can manipulate to meet their needs. Find it here, with other tips for businesses to prepare in times of outages.

5. Brent Ozar offers business owners words of wisdom as they set out to implement a disaster and recovery solution. Check out his High Availability worksheets, that are printable, aesthetically pleasing and requires teams to ask the hard questions that prepare them for worst case scenarios:

“One of the questions we ask every new client is, “How much data is this application allowed to lose, and how long is it allowed to be down for?” This leads to some really fun conversations.The business users assume that the database will never lose data and cannot go down. The IT admins assume that the business understands all systems can lose data, and that the business will be okay with some data loss during a crash.” Check out his website for tips, and resources.

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