Introduction to Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster Recovery Planning is a business critical activity that will ensure that your organisation will be able to recover from a disaster quickly and with the minium of disruption.

The process can be very different in each organisation but every disaster recovery plan will contains the following sections:

1.  Assesment of potential risks.

2. Documentation of Business processes.

3. Mapping of business processes to dependant systems.

4. Impact analysis of the loss of dependant systems.

5. Disaster recovery strategy.

6. Business recovery strategy.

7. Maintenance of the plan.