Disaster recovery plan

[tony84]

Dont forget to have one of these and review it!

I updated mine last month. Being in Stockport we were quite heavily hit by the floods on new years day. Thankfully I was not overly affected, maybe a grands worth of stuff going in the bin. We are nowhere near a river or stream, we are in a managed office block so all things considered I rolled my eyes when I had to do a disaster recovery plan. But actually having it in place was quite handy as I had already put things in place for which meant business as usual.

Had I not done one of these plans, it might have been a bit more of a pain.

Even if you dont have a plan but just have a think about what would happen if the proverbial hit the fan what would you do, best to have a backup plan and not need it than need one and not have it.

 

[WaveJumper]

A very good call and if you have staff make sure they know what the plan is, even if its just the basics ie cant get into the location due to flooding, bomb, or other major incident ......

1, Where's your location to meet ideally a local hotel (make sure you have an arrangement in place)
2, Do they have a mobile number to contact
3, Do you have the ability to operate remotely especially regarding IT

The list could be endless of course

We used to have a large grab bag on wheels filled with essentials in case of a major evacuation all staff had a little encapsulated card with brief details numbers etc to call, when you got a 185 staff things can soon spiral out of control especially when those on route are not aware of whats going on until they arrive at a blockade.

Sorry not meaning to teach anyone to suck eggs but Tony is bang on with this one if you are unlucky enough to be caught up in a major incident and not got a plan ........ you will pretty quickly wish you had

 

[cjd]

Here's how to handle the comms side of it

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

All businesses need telephones and if yours stops working for any reason, you will lose money and thats why at Voipfone business continuity and disaster recovery is so important.

www.voipfone.co.uk

 

[Chris Ashdown]

We learnt the hard way, our embroidery machines were left overnight just turned off for use the next day, Sods law a gutter had filled up with moss etc over the winter and this overflowed into the workshop directly onto the machines. not a great deal of water but enough to bugger up the machines. placing the nylon dust covers would have saved a lot of expense. after that we covered all electrical items like computers etc every night. not a flood but enough drips to cause damage