Disaster Preparation Planning

The Disaster Preparation Plan (DPP) you put in place with your Backup Exec system should be tailored to your network environment. While environments vary in different organisations, there are five elements to consider when creating a comprehensive DPP. They are:

• Hardware protection - See Hardware Protection
• The ability to maintain the practice's operations during a disaster period until the server can be restored
• A sound backup strategy
• Off-site storage of backups
• Effective DPP management

Of course, many of these are bound up with basic information security strategies which should also be running at your practice.