Disaster Recovery

Last night a friend told me that his Mac PowerBook gave up the ghost.  Apparently the Video Card just decided to stop working.  In chatting with him today we got into the topic of Backups and Disaster recovery.

He believes at most he lost just a few documents and emails – at most 3 days worth of work.

As the VP of a well known organization this still hurts.

Recently on the CITRT mailing list I read about a guy who was trying to help a parishoner in his church find a way of recovering data from soup that had been spilled onto a laptop.

The HostMedic Agency hears these types of stories all the time… it begs the question –
Does your organization have a formal written disaster recovery plan that includes remote workers?