Properly planning, testing and documenting whether your organization’s systems and data can be recovered in the event of a disaster is a best practice we heartily espouse here at i365. So it is always great to showcase another customer that is doing things right when it comes to disaster recovery and data protection.
Networkworld recently wrote this great article about EVault customer, law firm Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin. The firm was able to avoid disaster when the use of their New York office was knocked out of commission for two weeks due to an electrical fire in the building’s basement.
Fortunately for the firm, they had a disaster recovery plan in place. A plan they had tested. As John Brooks, manager of network services at Marshall, Dennehey, states in the article:
“We had tested the recovery of our SQL databases and our Exchange databases, and we fully documented everything. When the fire happened, we were ahead of the game. We knew exactly what to do, and that’s why we were able to recover so quickly.”
The firm was able to restore data from the primary vault at their Philadelphia headquarters and make it available to attorneys and staff from the New York office in a matter of hours. It was literally “a trial by fire” of Marshall, Dennehey’s EVault backup and recovery system, and it came through with flying colors! Just goes to show how important it is to plan and test if you can recover your data in the time required.
How prepared is your organization in the event of a disaster? Have you tested your plan?
