Disaster recovery will mainly involve comprehensive backups of your data at short regular intervals. A company’s data is often their most valuable asset, and any IT professional will state that the most common hardware failure is the hard drive.

These backups should be in a variety of different media to ensure your data is safe, although obviously this is not always feasible. Depending on the amount of data and its importance you should set a regular timetable in which your hard drive backups are transferred to optical media, solid state drives or magnetic tape.

Replacement hardware should also be kept in reserve to reduce waiting times for new components. The priority for disaster recovery is to get your system up and running again as quickly as possible so any competent systems administrator will be ready to replace hardware and software at short notice.