Best Practices – Sometimes we get it right

So I thought I would share some success stories with you to go with the horror stories I shared last time.

Quite a few clients are getting tired of my hounding them to create a “best practices” disaster plan, and are finally seeing things my way and taking the first steps.

A small 3 person law firm has gathered up all of the software and information on the hardware and organized it in a 3 binder system. We now can find all the information, original CD’s, recovery disks and documentation in just a few minutes. The firm also has setup an onsite automatic backup system that synchronizes the data every night.

The next step for this law firm will be creating images of each machine and getting a more formal process for taking the data offsite.

Another small law firm has recently installed a removable backup system and is taking one of the drives offsite almost every day. We also have the data backing up to a second hard drive in the secretary’s system.

A dentist client recently had a hard drive go bad in one of his systems. We had previously created an image of this drive, as well as all the other drives in his office. It was about a 20 minute process to get the system back up and running. The data on the system had been backup up to the server and was easily recovered.

Sometimes we do get it right. How about you…. Are you able to say the same.

Let me know what you think,

Marc