Everyone knows that occasionally equipment fails or disasters occur such as fire and floods. Organizations without an adequate plan may find themselves out of business quickly after experiencing a major disaster. This statistic is amplified for small and midsized businesses: many of these businesses today are relying on archaic backup and restore plans that will certainly not enable them to survive many of the disasters seen lately or the frequency of everyday mishaps that impact IT. Hopefully your business will never have to experience a major disaster. But having an effective disaster recovery plan with sufficient documentation, adequate testing, and well trained staff will increase your chances of survival when faced with a minor or major catastrophe.

How good are your Backups? If your system were to crash how many days would it take to recover?

Do you know if your backups will actually work when needed? Are they tested within your infrastructure?

The fact is most company's these days heavily depend on there IT. If you were to loose it all how would you cope?

Standard backup and disaster recovery

At Rednet we use Acronis software in conjunction with removable hard disk drives. There are a several advantages to this over the older tape drive. Hard drives have greater capacity, they are faster and cheaper. Hard drives have a longer life span where as tape eventually wears out and hard drives are far less vulnerable to humidity and dust. Remember the old audio cassettes and how they used to fade?

Incase of a disaster Acronis backup software allows for much quicker and more reliable system restores. Even in the event of a fire where your server is completely destroyed Acronis can restore your data to a different server quickly allowing us to get your business up and running again much quicker!

Full Server fail-over

Rednet's Full server fail-over (AKA High availability server) solution uses Double-Take software and is the next level of server protection and backup. This services is usually used when a business simply cannot afford for there IT to be off-line for real period of time. A fail-over is a secondary redundant machine which takes over should the primary server fail. This process takes little or no human intervention and usually completes within 30 minutes. The next level to this would be a high-availability cluster which is not practical in small-medium business.