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Test your data recovery plans

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Written by Phil on October 7, 2009 in Business Continuity.

Most CIOs will say yes, they have a disaster recovery strategy with policies and processes in place that govern how people and technologies will function in the event of an extended outage.

But how sure are these same CIOs that their strategies actually work in the event of a real disaster? IT organizations need to give their data recovery solutions a reality check

See Test your data recovery plans by Ashish Nadkami for SearchStorage.

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An unexercised contingency plan could be worse than no plan at all!

Be sure to read Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan, Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI, Editor – the only book on this subject – for valuable tips, techniques and insights.

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