Following a night of bad storms, with nothing to do but think about worst-case scenarios, I started wondering how well the equipment and data in my home office would fare in the event of a real disaster: a roof blown off, a fire, flood damage.
We talk a lot about disaster preparedness on the enterprise level. But how do you build your own personal DR plan? What offsite facility do you use to store backups? How do you equip yourself to cope with an emergency evacuation — and how much stuff should you plan on being able to rescue?
There’s more than just a difference of scale here, I think. The issues involved in safeguarding “your stuff” out of the context of an organization should really be less complex, more informal — but how do you devise measures that (realistically) you’ll be able to implement?
If anyone has run through this drill before, has a plan in place, has suggestions or advice, please share what you know, either here or in my blog.
Thanks,
Jody