Disaster Recovery Planning and Procedures

Regardless of how much you planned out redundancy and fault tolerance, when disaster strikes, it can be devastating. There are three things that you should be concerned with as a network security administrator when it comes to disasters—your data, your server room, and the site in general. You need to have a powerful backup plan for your data and a comprehensive disaster recovery plan as well.

Data Backup

Disaster recovery (or DR for short) is pretty simple in the case of data. If disaster strikes you better have a good data backup plan; one that fits your organization’s needs and budget. Your company might have a written policy as to what should be backed up, or you might need to decide what is best. Data can be backed up to a lot of different types of media (or to other computers), but generally the best method is tape backup.