IT Disaster Recovery Plan

Restore productivity quickly

When your server is down, it means that your business is either crippled or halted. This can mean:

• Serious loss in sales and/or business opportunity
• Decrease in employee productivity and efficiency
• Increase in server maintenance costs and overhead

The primary issue for backup and recovery is speed. Typically, the amount of data that must be moved from disk to tape (or other backup media) is so large that the act of performing a backup in and of itself presents a significant load to the system and degrades performance accordingly. Backups must be completed as quickly as possible to avoid impacting users and the business.

For this reason, most sites attempt to perform backups during off-hours ("off-hours" is meaningless in 24x7 production environments). Data tape devices are typically not as fast as the disks they are backing up, causing added problems..

Therefore depending on the size of the data being backed-up and the amount of memory available on the computer involved, the backup process must hesitate often to wait for the tape to catch up. This increases the individual backup "window" for each computer being backed up and for the entire backup cycle for any number of computers. In short, backup and recovery routines are not necessarily meeting the needs of IT staff and corporate business.

For more information please review the LANDesk product lines.