Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Make sure that disaster recovery planning includes considerations for the physical site, power, entire system failure, server component failure, and software corruption.

• Identify the different services and technologies, points of failure, and critical areas; then prioritize in order of importance.

• Make sure that the disaster recovery solution contains costs associated with additional hardware, complex configurations, and a service-level agreement estimating how long it will take to recover the service should a failure occur. Different options should also be presented.

• Document the server configuration for any environment, regardless of size, number of servers, or disaster recovery budget.

• Verify that any backup disks or remote server shares used to store backups are both physically secure and secured by NTFS and share permissions to reduce the risk of compromising or losing company data.