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• • Rethinking Your Backup
  When working out the details of your post-disaster data recovery strategy, make sure to revisit your backup methods.
• • Thwarting Disaster
  Here are six steps toward being ready, should a natural or manmade calamity befall your company.
• • Symantec Backup Exec
  The latest iteration of the app has a small footprint but a large potential for helping end users recover their own files.
• • The Gathering Storm
  Think you have a foolproof disaster recovery plan? These businesses thought so too, but after surviving Hurricane Katrina, they have a few words of advice for IT leaders.
• • Crisis Contingency
  A sound Exchange backup and recovery plan can turn potential disaster into a minor setback.
• • Building Better Business Continuity
  Are you bracing for the next Katrina without planning for the sprinkler leak that's more likely to threaten your servers?
• • Preparing For The Worst
  Natural and man-made disasters can strike at any time. Is your company ready? If you plan appropriately, your business can survive—even master—a disaster.
• • Ironclad Backups
  At small businesses, data can be just as critical to operations and profitability as at larger enterprises. Augmenting traditional tape archives with disk-based backup adds extra insurance.
• • Disaster Management vs. Incident Management
  Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
• • Creating an Incident Response Checklist
  Whether it’s the result of a networkwide malware infection, the work of a malicious hacker or a trusted employee with an ax to grind, the first response — as in any critical situation — is an assessment of the incident. Only after you know the specifics can your company’s response team put a stop to the crisis, contain the situation and mitigate further damage to your systems.
• • Backup and Restore in Windows Vista
  If you're not fortunate enough to have a means of centralizing your backups, the new backup and restore features in Vista can help protect your data and help you recover files more quickly than previous versions of Windows.
• • Old Reliable
  Tape backup remains popular among small businesses because of its price, performance and portability.

• • Part I: Planning for Disaster Recovery
• • Part II: Using Disk Backup to Augment Tape
• • Part III: Disaster Recovery's Cool New Technologies
• • Part IV: Disaster Recovery Management – In-house or Outsourced?
• • Part V: Continuous Data Protection on Exchange Servers

 

• • Keeping Your Network Available Through Thick and Thin