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Disaster recovery 'should think big'
Category: Data destruction
22 September, 2008
It is important to think big when planning disaster recovery procedures, it has been claimed.Brian Sommer writes for ZDNet about the views of an unnamed chief financial officer on the best approach to disaster recovery.
He notes that preparations which plan for specific and localised disruption may be incomplete.
"If your plan doesn't have a scenario where hundreds or thousands of businesses in a large area around your facility are destroyed, then your plan is flawed and inadequate," Mr Sommer adds.
He points out that the geographical spread of an incident may also be accompanied by it lasting for a relatively long period of time.
If energy infrastructure is damaged, this could leave laptops and mobile phones low on charge or completely out of battery power, he concludes.
ZDNet suggests that some of the primary functions of disaster recovery include offsite backup of data and a procedure to begin operations from a new location.
