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Remote Data Back-up Solutions:
Qnet Information Services provides secure, online, remote data backup solutions for individuals, businesses, home offices and students.
Our automatic remote data backups can be performed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and each data backup is compressed and encrypted on your PC and then stored offsite on our secure remote backup servers.
Your data and computer files are an integral part of your life and business. They are the link between you, your work and your clients. Data loss could mean disaster.
Qnet provides the ability to secure and quickly recover critical data thus providing the same data management benefits available to the largest corporations. Designed
specifically to support desktop and laptop computers, it can automatically back up your computer system every day via an Internet connection. Your data is secured with
(256bit) encryption for safe transmission and storage off-site.
No extra hardware, no tapes, and no hassles. Human error is virtually eliminated. With Qnet, there are no more excuses as to why your data was not backed up.
Even if you backup your data now to disk or tape, you may not remember to do it every day and you may not take it offsite. This makes your important data vulnerable to fire, flood, and theft!
Disaster Recovery Planning:
There are several options available for organizations to use once they decide to begin creating their disaster recovery plan.
The first and often most accessible source a business can drawn on would be to have any experienced managers within the organization draw on the knowledge and experience they
have to help craft a plan that will fit the recovery needs specific to their unique organization. For organizations that do not have this type of expertise in house,
there are a number of outside options that can be called on, such as trained consultants and specially designed software.
One of the most common practices used by responsible organizations is a disaster recovery plan template provided by a Disaster Recovery specialist.
While templates might not cover every need specific to every organization, they are a great place from which to start one's preparation.
Templates help make the preparation process simpler and more straightforward. They provide guidance and can even reveal aspects of disaster recovery that might otherwise be forgotten.
The primary goal of any disaster recovery plan is to help the organization maintain its business continuity, minimize damage, and prevent loss.
Thus the most important question to ask when evaluating your disaster recovery plan is, "Will my plan work?" The best way to ensure reliability of one's plan is to practice it regularly.
Have the appropriate people actually practice what they would do to help recover business function should a disaster occur. Also regular reviews and updates of recovery plans should be scheduled.
Some organizations find it helpful to do this on a monthly basis so that the plan stays current and reflects the needs an organization has today, and not just the data, software, etc., it had six months ago.
The following are some of the general step required to develop and implement a plan.
Policy Statement (Goal of plan, reasons and resources Business Impact Analysis (how does a shutdown impact the business financially and otherwise)
Identify Preventive Steps (can disaster be avoided by taking prudent steps
Recovery Strategies (how and what you will need to recover)
Plan Development (Write plan and implement plan elements)
Plan buy-in and testing (very important so that everyone knows the plan and knows what to do)
Maintenance (continuous changes to reflect current situation)
To better understand how Qnet can help you define and implement a
Disaster Recovery Plan or Backup Solution, please call Richard Sanner, Vice President Business Development, at 214-341-7638 or send an e-mail with your request at
rsanner@qnetis.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
