Backup and Recovery – flooding and hurricanes, are you covered?

So how about flooding or hurricanes? I live in the United States Pacific Northwest, about as far away from Florida as you can be in the lower 48 United States. So I have not experienced hurricanes, I have only heard stories.

But I have seen flooding, there’s a lot of lowland areas where flooding can occur.

But this is one of those things that if I lived in an area with hurricanes, I would want to figure out how to best mitigate the risk associated with hurricanes or massive floodings.

My wife and I made a trip down to the Florida Keys. We drove down to Key West and last spring and during the normal, not even a bad weather period. I think in the time we were there for five days, we had three power outages. Not hurricane related, I don’t even know what the cause was maybe it was weather. Not sure.

But what if you’re in an area that’s commonly hit by those kind of issues? What is your plan? Look at what is actually damaged?

And I know, it’s one thing to lose internet, it’s one thing to lose power and all your connectivity and those things. But is that the issue?

Or have you actually lost data; you need to look at what’s damaged?

And if you’re just offline and without power, what can you do to get things back online?.

And this is where I would seriously be looking at what is the cloud backup, if I lived in an area where hurricanes were common, or even slightly common.

I would want to look at how do I just move everything to the cloud or other geographic location.

and not have anything on premise at that location.

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