Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Procedure.
Wedding planner provides online services to their customers, expansions of the company network and collaboration with 5 hotels to provide some additional and better services to the customers is always our main concern. Furthermore, as a website that provides online sales and transactions, data is very important. At the same time, our company provides services that are time-sensitive. Therefore, recoverability from any disaster is a primary concern. Such factors make us realize a good backup and recovery operation is the most crucial part of maintaining our system. .
We can't afford to lose any important database and files or any protracted downtime. Backing up of data is vital for the survival of any business. Just imagine if customer data is lost. However disasters do happen and during such times a comprehensive recovery plan should be in place to get our business back online in the shortest possible time. Small businesses without a thorough, regularly tested data backup procedure and recovery plan are likely to go out of business within a few months after a data disaster. In the following pages we will describe and outline our backup and recovery solutions. .
Data Backup.
As we have mentioned, because we maintain an online presence in the Internet; we require a robust data backup and disaster recovery system. However as ABC Pte Ltd is still relatively new, funds are limited and a balance between cost and efficacy of the system must be struck. Let us first take a look at the resources we have to backup and recover in times of disaster. .
After careful consideration of the importance of the data being backed up and the costs of the various backup options, we have come out with what we feel is the optimal balance between cost and risk. The data we feel has to be protected to maintain our business operations are:.
1. Customer's information (includes the orders placed by clients).