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Worst practices for backup and disaster recovery


Tony Bradley, Contributor
01.03.2006
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Natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina keep network administrators acutely aware of the need for a solid data backup and disaster recovery plan to ensure business continuity. But too many companies observe worst practices, thereby dooming the plan. This two-part article lists a series of worst practices, in the hopes that showing what happens if you do it wrong will illustrate how to do it right.

Part two of this article will cover additional worst practic


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es, including the more technical aspects of how not to create a backup and disaster recovery plan.

About the Author
Tony Bradley is a consultant and writer with a focus on network security, antivirus and incident response. He is the About.com Guide for Internet/Network Security and provides security tips, advice, reviews and other information. Bradley contributes frequently to industry publications.

This tip originally appeared on SearchWinSystems.com

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