This webinar, originally presented on April 30, 2009, provides advice and tips for business owners preparing for a potential interruption due to a pandemic.
Archive for April, 2009
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009Short-term Phone Outage
Friday, April 24th, 2009Has anyone had their phones go down unexpectedly for just a few hours? If so, what did you do? We had this happen yesterday and just used our cell phones for outbound calling, but lost calls for two hours. We know Agility can bring a satellite dish for phones and/or Internet, but that is for longer term outages. Any help?
Putting all my info together into a plan
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009I’ve put all my employees, vendors and inventory lists into Myagility. How do I get it all into a plan?
Zenith InfoTech BDR offsite backup
Sunday, April 5th, 2009My company is investigating offsite backup and has been presented with Zenith InfoTech BDR product as one option.
I am not familiar with this. Can anyone who uses it or has used it please give me your feedback? I am particularly curious as to how any recoveries went.
Imaging solutions for workstations and servers
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Getting your desktops and servers back on-line fast is critical and doing complete reloads is long and tedious work. Imaging software is the right choice to get your systems back on track in the shortest time. I know that Agility offers this service however for you do-it yourselfers, be sure to choose imaging software that allows you to restore an image to dissimilar hardware.
For example, you have an office full of Dell computers that are 3 years old, loaded with Windows XP and all of your applications like Office and line of business programs. You’ve used imaging software to capture an image of a fully loaded computer so that you can restore should the computer have a disk crash or something of that nature. However if you have to buy an all new system, the 3 years that have gone by mean that most of the guts of the new system have changed enough that when you restore that old image, all your going to get at boot-up is the dreaded blue screen of death.
Luckily, there are offerings from Acronis and Persystent, to name two, that allow you to make images of one computer and restore to one with considerably different hardware. In most cases, all you might need to do is add some drivers during the image restore process and you’re good to go.
Many people swear by Symantec’s Norton Ghost as a great imaging software package, however, as of this writing, it doesn’t have the ability to restore to dissimilar hardware. I should qualify that you may be successful, it just depends on how dissimilar the hardware is. I have also heard of a 3rd party package that works with Ghost to give it that capability.
I hope this provides a little guidance.