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Ten ways to take the sting out of IT disasters

Summary: Organisations that are ready for a disaster reduce its impact and are up and running again more quickly — those that don't may never recover, says Jack Wallen

Jack Wallen

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8. Have an offsite failover for your website
It's great to have all these backup plans, but if you're faced with disaster and depend on your website for revenue, you need an offsite failover. It will allow you to switch easily if your onsite server is out of commission. When you create this offsite failover, make sure you have the sites set up to update regularly, so you're not switching to an out-of-date server.

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  • These are really very useful tips of backing up the system. Each tips are important and essential to prevent loosing all the data that we have. I've experienced our server crashed before and we can't do anything but to repeat every files that I created, because our backup system was only able to restore few selected files.
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