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Statistics show that most small to mid-sized businesses will experience a system downtime at least once a year. One hour of downtime costs a mid-sized business $74000 on an average1 and it takes 30 hours on average for data disaster recovery2.
Yet, most organizations believe that Disaster Recovery (DR) Testing is more trouble than it’s worth.
The primary reason is that most small to mid-sized businesses have never run their Disaster Recovery system through regular real world tests. As a result, it is never certain whether their data, servers and applications will recover using an existing solution.
The report also points out that testing quarterly or even monthly is not enough. And tape, disk or cloud backup alone is not foolproof.
Quorum’s report makes a strong case for “Always Be Testing” on a daily basis.
It categorically states that, contrary to popular belief, if a business chooses its Disaster Recovery Solution correctly, even daily real-world tests are not time-consuming, costly, complex or a drain on resources.
The report points out that hardware, software and systems are constantly changing for any business. The organization’s data backup/data recovery must take all changes into account and the recovery solution has to be updated to-the-minute. Shortcuts, or traditional testing methods, don’t work.
Without Disaster Recovery Testing, a system is vulnerable and likely to be hit by backup corruption [especially for tape-based backups], backups executed incorrectly and human errors.
Only a systematic daily Disaster Recovery Testing covers everything.
In short, the Quorum report emphasizes that a business must be able to test every day. So it must have the correct Disaster Recovery Solution, with one click recovery and daily testing.
Quorum solutions provide assured, one click backup, recovery and continuity through simple and cost-effective solutions that safeguard a company’s revenue, customers and reputation. These solutions reduce downtime to mere minutes with a single click.
