1: Assemble a Team: When you start to come up with a disaster recovery plan, put together a team of people who know your system well and who have enough forward thinking skills to properly plan for worst-case scenarios.
2: Gather Your Documentation: Pull together a comprehensive list of all the documentation on your system and make sure that it is backed up in at least one other location and preferably two or more.
3: Identify Weaknesses: What parts of your system are the most fragile? What documentation doesn’t have an extensive series of backups? Your team should perform a thorough IT risk assessment that determines where the weak points in your current setup are.
4: Minimize Business Disruptions: Your disaster recovery plan should accomplish two major goals. First, it should minimize long-term damage to the system. Second, it should keep any disruption to business to as small an amount of time as possible.
5: Create a Coordination Schedule: Using the list of team resources that you compiled back in Step 1, you should make sure that you have excellent coordination of resources moving forward.
Even if you have extensive paper records and backups, a disaster recovery plan is an absolute necessity. Remember that this plan includes not only hacks and system failures but also physical damage from fires, earthquakes, flooding, and more. The more prepared you are, the faster your business will recover”. – TWYHER for CJonline.com, excerpted from the article, “5 Steps to Developing a Practical IT Disaster Recovery Plan “, click here to read the article in its entirety. [end]
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