Understanding business continuity
As a system administrator in this digital age, you must understand that any period of downtime will mean a loss of profit for the company. Therefore, your primary responsibility is to minimize downtime as much as possible. This can be achieved by adequately assessing the components that can fail and taking the appropriate measures to avoid such failure.
Let’s start by learning about disaster recovery plans (DRPs).
DRP
A DRP is a well-structured plan that ensures an organization will continue to provide services or recover from a disastrous situation as soon as possible. If a business cannot prevent unexpected events, it can minimize the losses if that business is prepared. Therefore, DRP is a proactive method for maintaining business continuity in such situations. The following is a list of things that organizations should consider when compiling DRP:
- Make an inventory of all hardware and software.
- Analyze all potential...
