As IT systems have become increasingly critical to the functioning of a company, the importance of ensuring the continued operation of those systems, or the rapid recovery of the systems, has become critical.

Disaster recovery is the technology part of business continuity. It involves creating processes, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery and continuation of your technology infrastructure after a natural or human-caused disaster. It also involves setting up some type of technology infrastructure that runs in parallel to your existing one, which can be switched to in case of a disaster.

Smartweb uses the following most common strategies for data protection.

• Backups made to tape and sent off-site at regular intervals (preferably daily.)
• Backups made to disk on-site and automatically copied to off-site disk, or made directly to off-site disk.
• Replication of data to an off-site location, which overcomes the need to restore the data (only the systems then need to be restored or synchronized.)
• High availability systems which keep both the data and system replicated off-site, enabling continuous access to systems and data.
• Continuous data protection (CDP), or real-time backup ,which refers to backup of computer data by automatically saving a copy of every change made to that data. It enables the restoration of data to any point in time.

Smartweb will recommend and install the most effective Disaster Recovery solution for you.