Backup and recovery strategies and their role in business continuity

Abstract

IT disaster recovery is one of the most important component of business continuity process. Companies need it for recovering disrupted systems and networks and resume normal operations every time when disruptions occure. Disaster recovery becomes more important from day to day because it allows minimizing any negative impacts to company operations. Disaster recovery is a business continuity process that ensures access to the software, hardware, and data required to resume normal business operations in the event of a natural or human-induced disaster. Implementation of a good distaer recovery plan begins with choosing the best strategies for this goal. The correlation of the business continuity, disaster recovery and the best strategies in this field are analysed in this paper. JEL: H12, M15