Disaster Recovery Guide in San Francisco Bay Area

Disaster Recovery Checklist

A quick and useful disaster recovery guide or checklist for do's and don't when facing a data or network connectivity crisis.

Lost Data?
If your data is mission critical, do not run the risk of running utilities, in some case utilities can further damage the media.
Make sure you write a synopsis of the situation including the following:

Was the data compressed?
What OS was running on the media?
What size are the partition?
How are they formatted?
What controller card was being used?
How full is the media?
What were the error messages?
Did you attempt to recover the data?

If you have not done so yet, call 1-877 ACTIVNET.

Lost Network Connectivity?
If your network has been running smoothly and suddenly does not show signs of life, do not modify existing server or services configuration. If you unplugged network components for troubleshooting, make sure to label the port to which each specific component was plugged. 

Make sure you write a sysnopsis of the situation including the following:
Who signaled the problem first?
What were the error messages?
Did you try to troubleshoot the situation?

If you have not done so yet, call 1-877 ACTIVNET.