When most business people think of disaster recovery they imagine a massive hurricane, a fire, or a flood that destroys their building and all of the contents. Most people do a nightly backup of their data to a tape drive or hard drive and instruct a member of the staff to take the data home with them and keep it in a secure place, in case there is a fire, flood or hurricane that night.
Years ago if you were backing up any data, you were ahead of the curve. Times have changed. It is no longer enough to have the data and the files backed. Of course you have to do that. But if you had a catastrophe, one where you completely lost your desktops, laptops and servers, how long would it take you to get back online?
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