Disaster recovery services can help companies recover from virtually any type of disaster and ensure ongoing availability of mission-critical resources. Disaster recovery (DR) planning is the process of developing advance arrangements and procedures that enable an organization to respond to a disaster by resuming critical business functions within a defined time frame, thereby minimizing loss and restoring affected areas.
It is not a two-month project, neither is it a project that you can forget about, once it is completed. An effective recovery plan is a live recovery plan. The plan must be maintained and tested/exercised regularly.
An effective Disaster Recovery plan consists of the following stages:
- Program description
- Pre-planning activities (project initiation)
- Vulnerability assessment and general definition of requirements
- Business impact analysis
- Detailed definition of requirements
- Plan development
- Testing program
- Maintenance program
- Initial plan testing and plan implementation.
The primary objective of a business resumption plan is to enable an organization to survive a disaster and to re-establish normal business operations. In order to survive, an organization must ensure that critical operations can resume within a reasonable time frame. Therefore, the goals of a business resumption plan should be to identify weaknesses and implement a disaster prevention program, minimize the duration of a serious disruption to business operations, facilitate effective co-ordination of recovery tasks, and most importantly reduce complexity of the recovery effort.
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