Actually, the disaster recovery plan should target preventive, detective and corrective measures to prevent, detect and correct any unwanted events. Preventive measures require organizations to have local mirror systems, surge protectors, UPS, back-up generators, anti-virus software, fire-extinguishers etc.
The perfect solution to protect data is to keep it at two different locations – offsite as well as onsite. Offsite backups, or ‘cloud’ storage services, reflects disaster recovery best practices. Even if the data at your local network gets corrupted, one can restore the entire data from offsite location. Simply taking daily backups does not make the grade in defining a good disaster recovery plan. Regular testing and monitoring of servers as well is an important part of the whole process. Moreover, the disaster recovery plan should also be tested regularly and should be well documented too.
Businesses can’t meet the expense of data loss but they can invest in the finest protection.