Keep Your Business Running When Disaster Strikes
Hardware failures, cyberattacks, severe weather, and unexpected outages can bring business operations to a halt with little warning. Many small to mid-sized businesses do not realize how difficult or expensive recovery can be until critical files, systems, or applications are suddenly unavailable. Since 1998, ComSolutions has helped Louisiana businesses prepare for the unexpected with disaster recovery planning designed to protect critical data, reduce downtime, and restore operations as quickly as possible.
Top 5 Reasons to Have a Strong Disaster Recovery Plan with ComSolutions
| 1 | Get Back to Business FasterWhen a server fails, ransomware hits, or an unexpected disaster takes systems offline, every minute matters. A disaster recovery plan gives your business a clear path to restore operations as quickly as possible. |
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| 2 | Failover Systems Keep Critical Operations RunningSome businesses cannot afford to wait for a failed system to be repaired or restored. Failover systems provide a backup environment that can take over right away when a primary system goes down, helping prevent downtime and keep essential operations running. |
| 3 | Prioritized RecoveryWithout a plan in place, it can be difficult to know what should be restored first. A well-designed disaster recovery plan helps us prioritize your most critical systems, so that restoring less important systems does not delay getting essential operations back online. |
| 4 | Reduce the Cost of Unexpected DowntimeDowntime can mean lost productivity, missed sales, delayed work, and frustrated customers. A Disaster Recovery Plan helps limit how long your business is disrupted and how much that disruption costs. |
| 5 | Know That Your Data Can Actually Be RecoveredSome IT providers sell backup services without regularly verifying that those backups can actually be restored. We test and monitor your backups so that you can have greater confidence that your data will be there when you need it most. |
Disaster Recovery Plans Built Around Real Business Needs
At ComSolutions, we know that you want to be a prepared business leader who protects what you’ve built and keeps your company ready for the unexpected. In order to do that, you need an IT partner who makes sure your business can recover quickly when the unexpected happens.
The problem is having backups doesn’t mean you have a proven plan to get your business running again after a disaster, which makes you feel uneasy because you don’t really know if your business could recover when it matters most. We believe you shouldn’t have to wait for a disaster to find out whether your recovery plan actually works.
We understand how stressful it is to wonder whether your business could keep operating after a major disruption, which is why we have been protecting businesses since 1998 with 24/7/365 monitoring designed to catch threats, outages, and backup failures before they become business disasters.
3 Simple Steps to Get Started
| Step 1 | Assess your current backup and recovery readiness. |
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| Step 2 | Build a Disaster Recovery plan around the systems your business can’t afford to lose. |
| Step 3 | Test and maintain your plan so you’re ready when the unexpected happens. |
So, schedule a DISASTER RECOVERY READINESS ASSESSMENT today!
Stop wondering whether your business will survive the next cyberattack, outage, or major disruption. Instead, have confidence that your business is prepared, your recovery plan has been tested, and you know what happens next when disaster strikes.
Backup & Recovery FAQs
A backup is a copy of your data that can be used to restore lost or damaged files. Disaster recovery goes further by creating a plan for restoring the systems, applications, data, and technology your business needs to operate after a major disruption. Having backups is an important part of disaster recovery, but backups alone are not a complete recovery plan.
It is different from one system to the next. A system that processes transactions or changes important records throughout the day may need much more frequent backups than something more static like a knowledge base. A good disaster recovery plan establishes an appropriate backup schedule based on your actual needs.
Backups can be one of your most important recovery tools after a ransomware attack, but they must also be protected from the attack itself. Some ransomware attempts to locate, encrypt, or delete accessible backups. For this reason, backup strategies may include isolated, offline, or otherwise protected copies that attackers cannot easily reach.
The only way to have confidence in a backup is to verify and test it. A backup system may report that a job completed successfully without proving that the data or systems can be fully restored. Regular recovery testing helps identify problems before an emergency occurs. ComSolutions recommends regularly testing both the availability and integrity of backups.
Without a disaster recovery plan, recovery can take anywhere from hours to weeks while your IT team determines what failed, what needs to be restored, and whether usable backups are available. With a tested disaster recovery plan, those decisions are already made, which can significantly reduce downtime. For critical systems, failover solutions can reduce disruption even further by allowing a backup system to take over while the primary system is repaired or restored.
A disaster recovery plan should identify your important systems and data, failover processes, where backups are stored, who is responsible for recovery, and the order in which systems should be restored. It should also account for specific situations such as hardware failure, ransomware, data corruption, power outages, and other events that could interrupt normal operations.