Data Recovery in Florida: Preparing an Emergency Plan for Data Recovery
I once worked for a small magazine publisher with a unique personality. One day I suggested we bring in an expert to help us solve a problem with our subscription management. He looked at me with stark blue eyes and calmly advised me that we are the experts.
It is true you are often the expert when it comes to what you do day-in and day-out. An expert or consultant only helps to prove you are right. But with experience you get a feel for what you need to do to solve your problem. It is no different when you have to face the prospect of a system crash, or your backups fail to work, or someone sends you a nasty virus.
You may lose valuable time trying to fix the problem yourself. Of course, you need to have an idea of what the problem is before you hire a consultant. But you can only know this if you have made emergency plans in case your system fails for whatever reason. You would have sat down with your staff and brainstormed possible scenarios and their solutions. If you couldn’t come up with worthwhile conclusions you would then get a consultant to advise you.
Once this plan is in place, you would file it away and look at it on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis to reacquaint yourself with the possibilities. When trouble strikes you can then troubleshoot the problem and come up with what you think the problem is. If you have the resources within your group to solve it, you would go that way, and in the long run save yourself the consultant’s fee.
On the other hand, if you cannot solve the problem, then you would do the obvious and hire a consultant. But you cannot know which direction to go if you didn’t prepare a way out before you got the problem.