Disaster Recovery Planning Paper

This paper is intended to give you basis principles of disaster recovery planning and understanding the process. The information presented is to help prepare you to respond to a disaster and restore normal operations afterward. There is a lot of information that goes into a disaster recovery plan, so we will discuss a few of the important steps that need to be approached. One of the first things a company should do is ask what types of requirements or pressures it faces when deciding how to prioritize business processes and facilities for a disaster recovery. What departments are most important when backing up data, organizing a planning team, assessing risks in the company, establishing roles across departments, developing policies and procedures, …show more content…
The organizing team must be a well-rounded group that represents all the functions of the organization. The team represents and ensures that essential business processes are not overlooked during plan development. The team must have a designated leader or even two, which helps to maintain momentum and continuity if one leader is unavailable. Each participating department should assign a primary representative and an alternate to the team. The team should be trained in disaster recovery planning, either by attending outside training or an in-house session. Once the team is in place you will need to establish a schedule of activities for completing the project. The team should begin an awareness campaign about disaster recovery planning within the organization and all employees should be made aware that a plan is under way. To break this down in simpler terms the planning team includes the role of IT staff and network managers, creating interdepartmental subcommittees, organizing the team at the departmental level and IT staff and network managers should work with department teams creating an inventory of planning team …show more content…
All daily business function documentation should be stored in the same location and backed up daily on and off site. This should also include a back up of the overall system as specified by the Disaster Recovery Plan requirements, as a daily back up is not as necessary and is based more on the volume and schedules of updates. For safety and restoration needs, all backup information must be stored on site and off. The business should always keep in mind that the main goal is to achieve minimal disruption to all IT systems and to restore back to normal business functions with out loss of