Does DR apply to Small Businesses too? (page 2 of 2)

However, traditional means of backing them up is time consuming, and relies on the user to initiate it.

VERITAS NetBackup Professional brings automated data protection to desktops and mobile laptops by delivering transparent backup and comprehensive recovery capabilities for Windows clients.

Beyond backup & recovery
Backup provides users with the basic recovery tools for data availability, but solutions such as a Volume Manager come with proactive monitoring and maintenance tools that will help to prevent disasters. A Volume Manager can also be used to help set up mirroring of data and should be able to mirror data across multiple disks - with more disks holding redundant data, the likelihood of surviving failure increases.

VERITAS Volume Manager™ is for organisations that require constant and consistent access to mission critical data. Volume Manager provides easy-to-use, online storage management tools, which reduce planned and unplanned downtime.
Replication

One of the key considerations for DR planning is to determine which applications are most important i.e. the ones that would cause the most significant loss if they were unavailable. Traditional backup and recovery is often not fast enough to handle the recovery of the very large databases used by these mission-critical applications. That's why many companies today implement data replication tools to keep an up-to-date hot standby of their most critical data for immediate point-of-failure recovery.

VERITAS Storage Replicator™ for Windows NT and Windows 2000
The VERITAS Volume Replicator and Storage Replicator products can be used to provide seamless data replication of any database.
It supports data replication via a LAN or WAN, so that the replicated data can also be stored far enough away to protect against a site disaster. Additional benefits include not requiring a dedicated network and not being dependent on any vendor-specific storage hardware platform.

VERITAS has a solution for protection from any type of disaster. The tools and simple user interfaces help to reduce the reliance on individuals in the event of any disaster, which is clearly one of the objectives in good disaster recovery planning. They also enable you to make seamless changes due to growth or system changes.
Nonetheless, good disaster recovery planning starts with
a plan.