Cloud DR Strategies to Minimize Downtime & Avoid Data Loss

 Disasters come in many forms. Sometimes it’s a wildfire, or sometimes it’s a ransomware attack. Either way, businesses need to take necessary steps to recover from these disasters to avoid data loss and to minimize downtime. This is why cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies are introduced in order to help businesses efficiently recover from a disaster.

Keeping this in mind, following are some of the cloud disaster recovery strategies that need to be followed to ensure minimum downtime and avoid data loss.

Ready a Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan Before You Actually Need it

The middle of a disaster is a terrible time to make critical decisions, with a well thought of cloud disaster recovery plan, recovery of data will go a lot smoothly and everyone will know exactly what to do.

Many businesses do not craft a cloud disaster recovery plan well before time as they think that they will see to it when they need it but during a disaster, it is a lot difficult to handle things and without any cloud disaster recovery plan, efficient recovery of data cannot be guaranteed.

So, in order to ensure efficient recovery of data and to suffer as minimum downtime as possible, it is best to ready a cloud disaster recovery plan well before it is actually needed.

Test the Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan

Testing the cloud disaster recovery plan is just as important as crafting one. This is because a cloud disaster recovery plan is of no use if it is not working properly, and data recovery or any other stage of the plan is compromised.

So, test your cloud disaster recovery plan regularly, ideally every six months, however, it is also a good idea to conduct a surprise test once a while as disasters come as a surprise and this will train employees how to react during an actual disaster.

Establish a Good Cloud Disaster Recovery Team

Appointing a group of your employees to head cloud disaster recovery efforts is a good idea to ensure that everything works properly. The team will be responsible for everything related to cloud disaster recovery including training of employees, assigning responsibilities and other disaster recovery procedures. This way, everyone will know their duties and will know exactly what to do at the time of a disaster.

In Summary

The strategies discussed in this article are intended to give you a starting off point for exploring your company’s specific cloud disaster recovery requirements and measures for success. These may seem generic but are applied to almost every cloud disaster recovery plan. Getting a plan ready before time, testing the plan and forming a team is always a good idea when it comes to ensuring efficient recovery of data and reducing downtime.