Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
Short for disaster recovery plan, DRP is a plan for business continuity in the event of a disaster that destroys part or all of a business’s resources, including IT equipment, data records and the physical space of an organization.
Stages of a Disaster Recovery Plan
The goal of a DRP is to resume normal computing capabilities in as little time as possible. A typical DRP has several stages, including the following:
Understanding an organization’s activities and how all of its resources are interconnected.
Assessing an organization’s vulnerability in all areas, including operating procedures, physical space and equipment, data integrity and contingency planning.
Understanding how all levels of the organization would be affected in the event of a disaster.
Developing a short-term recovery plan.
Developing a long-term recovery plan, including how to return to normal business operations and prioritizing the order of functions that are resumed.
Testing and consistently maintaining and updating the plan as the business changes.
A key to a successful DRP is taking steps to preventing the likelihood of disasters from occurring, such as using a hot site or cold site to back up data archives.
In the last dozen years or so, we’ve seen a number of major disasters that highlight the importance of a well-thought-out disaster recovery plan (DRP).
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