I just got back from a family trip to Disney World where we baked in the hot Florida sun. After a hard day of waiting in lines, riding rides, and eating terrible food, I tried to relax by reading my email and catching up on the day’s events outside the Magic Kingdom. That's when it hit me that most of us never really take a true vacation!
When is the last time you went somewhere not work related, but still took work with you? Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Laptop? It’s all the same. Even when your not working your still working. You setup your “Out of Office” email, but still check your email regularly and reply anyway. I would venture to guess that you even check your voicemail while away. You (we) do all this because you’re worried about your servers, network, applications, users or a million other things that can go wrong in the Windows IT world. Nobody wants to come back to a disaster that you didn’t even know happened.
It is important to know that your Business Continuity plan is not only insurance for your company, but should server as a piece of mind for you. It is designed to provide a basic level of redundancy in administration in the event of a disaster. BC plans are designed as a pseudo “play book” that a designated backup person should be able to follow in the event that you are on vacation or are unavailable.
So while you may still check your email and voicemail for other reasons, building a good Business Continuity plan can help you relax while on vacation and enjoy the time off.
Work hard on a good BC plan and play hard on vacation without the worry! Enjoy………
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