September 23, 2005
Online Backup and Recovery Services for Law Firms
Rita on the wake of Katrina is another reminder. Personal safety comes first! Then your livelihood and that of every law firm employee depends on having a recoverable backup; but backup tapes and discs are fragile — destroyed by water, heat, trauma and mishandling.
I have seen too many law firms suffer financially or even close their doors because they did not have a readable backup of their critical data. In the case of Katrina, backups that firms relied on were destroyed. That destruction has occurred even when the law firm had taken the extra step of placing their backups off-site. One hundred and thirty Juris® clients were affected by Katrina. The Juris team as of today has not been able to contact 19 of those firms to provide assistance. Next week, Juris service team members will begin contacting over 200 Juris law firms that appeared to be in danger from Rita. In all likelihood, some of those firms will not have recoverable backups. Some of those will never reopen their doors.
It doesn't have to be that way! There is an alternative. Online backup and recovery services provide a safe and secure alternative that can mean the difference between recovering from disaster or going out of business.
This issue is too serious to ignore.
Two of the major providers of online backup & recovery services are Livevault and EVault. I prefer Livevault at www.livevault.com. Law firms using Juris Law Office Management Systems can call 877/377-3740 or e-mail info@juris.com for more information about Livevault's online backup and recovery service.
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Filed under Disaster Recovery, Risk managment by Brian J. Ritchey