{"id":1956,"date":"2017-02-06T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2017-03-13T14:41:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:41:56","slug":"top-tips-to-maintain-business-flow-should-disaster-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/top-tips-to-maintain-business-flow-should-disaster-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips to Maintain Business Flow, Should Disaster Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"top-ten-ways-to-avoid-a-costly-data-breach\"If your business falls prey to a natural disaster, outage or anything else with the power to knock it off the grid, there are ways to maintain business continuity; which means faster recovery times and less of a chance that you\u2019ll have to close your doors for good.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s a cyber attack, an outage or even a snowstorm, follow these steps immediately after a disaster:<\/em><\/p>\n

1. Immediate Response<\/strong><\/p>\n

What you do in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe is paramount. This is the time when you flip on the \u201cdisaster switch\u201d and begin to consolidate everything that is of importance to the daily function of your organization. Whether this means contacting your cloud BDR provider or moving servers out of a flooded room, do it! Your actions will impact how quickly you’ll be able to re-open.<\/p>\n

2. Environmental Restoration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obviously in the event of an environmental disaster this is important, especially to small and mid-sized organizations that lack the means to funnel all of their day-to-day data elsewhere for safe keeping. Remember that\u00a0walls and roofs can always be repaired but if your success relies on your ability to gain insights from your data, that should take precedence.<\/p>\n

3. Functional Restoration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Get your business back to a point where it can function. It still may be too early to re-institute the functionality of your business processes, although that greatly depends on what plagued it before step 1. This is really the first step to re-opening the proverbial doors before allowing data to flow in and out once more.<\/p>\n

And the following should be taken into consideration far before there is ever a problem:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

4. Know Your Business, Inside and Out<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every enterprise is different and each organization has varied backup and disaster recovery needs. Networkworld.com<\/a>\u00a0suggests using\u00a0those needs to determine how your company should react to an unpredictable outage or other disaster that could put a stop to your daily business functions. Make sure you have a plan catered to your business.<\/p>\n

5. Determine the scenarios<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of your first steps should be to understand your critical systems and then identify how much data you can stand to lose. The answer is probably none, but it’s still important to know. It’s also vital to know the impact of an hour of downtime, a day of downtime, a week of downtime and so on, in order to be best prepared.<\/p>\n

6. Ask questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Networkworld.com<\/a>\u00a0offered the following questions to ask:<\/p>\n