JCS can help you plan and execute the necessary steps before a disaster to be able to restore your computer systems after a disaster.

Current backups of your business data are just one of the requirements. Network diagrams, equipment inventories and documented network configurations settings are also required.

Disaster!!!
What if all of the computers, servers, printers, routers and firewalls in your network have been:

• Stolen or,
• Destroyed in a fire or,
• Destroyed in a flood or,
• Eaten by the Easter bunny (it doesn't really matter how it happened, your business is in big trouble)

How badly will your business be impacted short term?
How badly will your business be impacted long term?

Those answers depend on what you have done before Disaster day. The key is off site secure storage of data backups, configuration backups, network diagrams and inventory listing of your hardware and software. Even small companies need to follow these practices.

Software CD's should be stored in fire safes, or fire resistant file cabinets.

What do you do now?

1. Replacing the hardware
   Do you have an inventory of your IT systems hardware and software stored in a secure, off site location? The inventory should include a list of the software installed on every computer and sever, including any applicable product keys. The insurance company will want this, as well as the police, if items have been stolen.
2. Reconfiguring the hardware
   A network diagram and copies of the network configurations of the servers, desktops and routers are crucial to this step. This is one that is often missed.
3. Replacing and/or reloading the software
   The inventory listing for each computer that includes the software installed one each unit is the basic requirement for this. Even when it isn't a system wide disaster (say a hard drive failed), and there isn't an inventory listing, I have had to make repeated trips to install software because the user kept remembering programs that they used.
4. Reloading and/or restoring the data
   This is where the tapes, or CD's need to be current and not stored at the site where the disaster happened.

Performing the 'before' steps
We can gather the inventory and configurations. Most of the various pieces of this phase can be done via computer software.

A comprehensive backup plan is required. We can assist in planning and setting up a plan that is automated as much as possible.