Can you do business even in a crisis?

Here is a scenario to set the stage.

Your company has been growing and at one point in time, you need to move your websites and your attached back office interface (like office share point) for your agents and office to a larger server. This is to make room for the planned growth of the company.

The smallest detail planed and everything thought of. The new server was ready to handle the load of the move. The move should take at the longest, as long as one overnight outage, no more then 24 hours and planed to happen from a Saturday to a Sunday.

By no later the Sunday afternoon, the move should be complete and the website with the back office interface should again run like a charm.

.....but then sometimes Sunday during the day Murphy moves in and anything and everything that can go wrong, is going wrong and the interface is not up.

Just the public pages of your website are up and running. The agents interface is still in no man's' land and you have been told that this move now could take up to a week, maybe longer.

Here are now some questions to you.

• When you have everything automated and on a shared server, do you have a plan B, C, D and maybe E and F to keep going and keep your flow of information going so that you do not loose anymore time and possible clients though any transition?
• Do you have your company information backed up on a separate server in the office or off site?
• Can you afford to loose several years of business information and still work as nothing has happened?