Disaster Recovery: Best Practices

January 24, 2002

Know your data: The importance of data—and the tolerance for its unavailability—should determine the level of protection applied.
Run data volume restoration tests often to ensure backup integrity.
Run full systems restoration tests on at least a quarterly basis, evaluating recovery speeds and procedures.
To ensure backward and forward compatibility, buy technology from companies with proven track records and clear product road maps.
If you havent already, plan to centralize backup. Doing so will reduce management overhead and leverage shared devices such as tape libraries.