FOOL PROOF STRATEGY
A Disaster Recovery Plan should have certain characteristics, which will make it efficient. This will help the company to recover from the disaster fast as well as with minimum loss. It is also necessary that a Disaster Recovery Plan includes plans for coping with loss of communications etc. A Disaster Recovery Plan is not prepared just as any other plan. For a Disaster Recovery Plan it is quite important that you have a full proof strategy behind it. Before making any strategy for the disaster recovery plan of a company it is necessary to understand the key requirements of the company as well as the recovery time. In simple words it is necessary to chalk out the important data that the company wants to recover and then the time by which this data is recovered. Based on this analysis the strategy will change from company to company. Some of the common strategies are: - Creating backup copies of the important information at regular intervals which is preferably daily. Replication of data to an off-site location, which defeats the necessity of data recovery. Using systems which can keep both the data as well as the replication of the data off-site. Thus with this one will have continuous access to system and data. By following these strategies an effective Disaster Recovery Plan can be drawn.