Recovering from serious failure.
WHAT THE CLOUD OFFERS
Somewhere to hold copies, away from your premises Capacity available quickly when needed
WHAT THAT ENABLES
Recovery without owning standby hardware.
WHAT TO ESTABLISH
How long you could be down How much data you could lose What restoring actually involves
THOSE TWO FIGURES
Drive everything else: backup frequency and recovery arrangements.
WHAT A SIMPLE ARRANGEMENT LOOKS LIKE
Backups held in cloud storage, off your premises and separated from live systems A documented restore procedure A tested restore
WHAT MOST SMALL BUSINESSES NEED
Exactly that.
Not standby environments running continuously.
WHAT TO TEST
An actual restore, annually.
WHAT PEOPLE DISCOVER
That the backup was incomplete, or that nobody knows the procedure.
WHAT TO DOCUMENT
The steps, stored outside the systems they recover.
WHAT TO AVOID
A recovery plan that depends on the thing that failed.
