The thought of restoring an entire server from backup tape can strike fear into even the most experienced network administrators. There are many issues that can stand in the way of a successful restore and critical errors are often only discovered after it is too late.

BT can provide a range of services to ensure that your organisation can survive the loss of critical data at any level from a single corrupt file to the loss of an entire data centre. As part of this service we can help identify and prioritise critical resources, audit current data protection and recovery procedures, and identify potential areas of weakness. Following this auditing process we recommend the most appropriate course of remedial action and, if required, implement these actions.

A Disaster Recovery and Contingency Planning exercise can: 

• Bring the benefit of years of technical support experience and training to your organisation to identify potential points of weakness in your current routines.
• Make proactive changes to backup routines and procedures to ensure a successful and optimised backup routine.
• Define processes for recovering servers onto different hardware platforms.
• Reduce the time taken for a successful recovery from days to hours.
• Assist with the development of contingency plans to deal with any level of data loss up to the loss of an entire building.