DATA BACKUP - DISASTER RECOVERY - AUDIT

The following will provide you with questions that everyone should ask themselves about their preparedness to recover from a System Failure or other Disaster that destroys your computer data.

Most individuals and businesses find out AFTER the Failure that they were not prepared, and are unable to recover valuable and critical data because of it.

INSTRUCTIONS: On each question below, click to check the box for that question Only if your answer is Yes!

After you finish with all the questions, click on the Analyze button.

Based on your answers you will get a Score or Success Rate, letting you know how prepared you are based on you answers.

If your Score or Success Rate is less than 80%, you should address the tasks that you are not doing that may be putting you at risk for not being able to recover from a disaster.

WILL YOU BE ABLE TO RECOVER YOUR DATA IN CASE OF A DISASTER? FIND OUT BELOW:

1.Do you have a Disaster Recovery Plan in writing for your office?.....................:
2.Have you Reviewed your Data Backup Process in the last 6 months?..............:
3.Do you have a Data Backup Copy stored at a location Away from the main site?...........:
4.Are you confident that you would be able to restore your critical data after a disaster?....:
5.Have you done a Data Backup Validation to confirm that you have good backups?........:
6.Is your main backup disk or device physically separate from the system being backed up?...:
7.In a system crash or disaster, will you be able to find and restore all critical data quickly?...........:
8.Do you know EXACTLY what is being backed up and where EXACTLY your backup data is?..:
9.Do you know how often your critical data is being backup up and at what time?.......................:
10.Is there someone, by name, that is accountable for the backup of your critical data?..........................:
11.Can you attest to your management that you are Not just Assuming that the office has a good backup process?....:

Analyze