Disaster Recovery Plan
Template
Business Continuity Planning
ISO 27000, ISO 27001,
ISO 27002 (formerly ISO 17799),
Sarbanes - Oxley, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA Compliant
This Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) can be
used as a template for any enterprise. The template and supporting material
have been updated to be Sarbanes-Oxley compliant. The Disaster
Planning Template comes as a Word document and includes:
- Disaster Recovery Plan Template
- Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire
- Work Plan
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Audit Program
New with version (version history) are (Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27000 Compliant):
- Web Site Disaster Recovery Planning Form
- >Department Disaster Recovery Activation Workbook
- Quick Reference Guide
- Team Alert List (Form)
- DRP Team Responsibilities
- DRP Team Checklist
- Critical Function(s) Definition
- Normal Business Hour Response Procedures
- After Hours Response Procedures
- DRP Location(s) Definition
- DRP Recovery Procedures
- Notification Procedures
- Notification Call List (Form)
- Vendor Disaster Recovery Questionnaire
- Vendor Phone List Form Updated
- Key Customer Notification Form
- Critical Resources to be Retrieved Form
- Business Continuity Off-Site Materials Form
The DRP template is over 200 pages and includes everything needed to customize the Disaster Recovery Plan to fit your specific requirement. The electronic document includes proven written text and examples for the following major sections of a disaster recovery plan:
- Plan Introduction
- Business Impact Analysis - including a sample impact matrix
- DRP Organization Responsibilities pre and post disaster - drp checklist
- Backup Strategy for Data Centers, Departmental File Servers, Wireless Network servers, Data at Outsourced Sites, Desktops (In office and "at home"), Laptops and PDA's.
- Recovery Strategy including approach, escalation plan process and decision points
- Disaster Recovery Procedures in a check list format
- Plan Administration Process
- Technical Appendix including definition of necessary phone numbers and contact points
- Job Description for Disaster Recovery Manager (3 pages long) - entire disaster recovery team job descriptions are available.
- Work Plan to modify and implement the template. Included is a list of deliverables for each task.
There is a extensive section that show how a full test of the DRP can be conducted. It includes
- Responsibilities
- Distribution
- Risk Assessment
- Training
- Testing
- Evaluation
- Maintenance
DRP BCP News
Business process contingency plan is disaster recovery plan
A disaster recovery plan (DRP) - sometimes referred to as a business continuity plan (BCP) or business process contingency plan (BPCP) - describes how an organization is to deal with potential disasters. Just as a disaster is an event that makes the continuation of normal functions impossible, a disaster recovery plan consists of the precautions taken so that the effects of a disaster will be minimized and the organization will be able to either maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions. Typically, disaster recovery planning involves an analysis of business processes and continuity needs; it may also include a significant focus on disaster prevention. - more info
Disasters can occur any where at any time
Disasters are unpredictable by nature and can strike anywhere at anytime with little or no warning. Recovering from one is expensive and time consuming, particularly for those who have not taken the time to think ahead and prepare for such possibilities.
Disaster Planning - Janco has found that 80% of all enterprises that do not have a disaster recovery / business continuity plan in place before a disaster occurs never reopen. However, when disaster strikes, those who have prepared and made recovery plans survive with comparatively minimal loss and/or disruption of productivity.
Disasters can take several different forms. Some primarily impact individuals -- e.g., hard drive meltdowns -- while others have a larger, collective impact. Disasters can occur such as power outages, floods, fires, storms, equipment failure, sabotage, terrorism, or even epidemic illness. Each of these can at the very least cause short-term disruptions in normal business operation. But recovering from the impact of many of the aforementioned disasters can take much longer, especially if organizations have not made preparations in advance.
Most of us recognize that these potential problems as possibilities. Unfortunately the randomness of some of these disasters lulls some organizations into a sense of false security-"that's not likely to happen here." However, if proper preparations have been made, the disaster recovery process does not have to be exceedingly stressful. Instead the process can be streamlined, but this facilitation of recovery will only happen where preparations have been made. Organizations that take the time to implement disaster recovery plans ahead of time often ride out catastrophes with minimal or no loss of data, hardware, or business revenue. This in turn allows them to maintain the faith and confidence of their customers and investors.
Disaster Recovery Planning is the factor that makes the critical difference between the organizations that can successfully manage crises with minimal cost and effort and maximum speed, and those that are left picking up the pieces for untold lengths of time and at whatever cost providers decide to charge; organizations forced to make decision out of desperation.
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Disaster Plan Common Failures
Disaster Recovery Business Continuity - Common Failures
Most common mistakes made in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning are eliminated by implementing the Janco Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template. Problems that are avoided are:
A disaster occurs -- now what?
A disaster or business interruption occurs, what do you do? A quick roadmap to follow is:
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Next Disaster Requires Culture of Preparedness
At the center of the recent White House report "Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned," there is a call to "foster a new, robust culture of preparedness."
The challenge comes after the report details the long list of tragedies that last year's deadly hurricane wrought, including more than 1,330 deaths and $96 billion in property damage. In terms of communications, 38 centers that normally handled 911 calls failed, while 3 million customers lost phone service.
The report urges a wide variety of players to build this new culture, including myriad federal agencies and tens of thousands of state and local emergency first responder agencies. And it calls on private citizens and the private sector to take part.
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Regulatory compliance impacts disaster planning process
Increasing regulatory oversight: as a result of recent natural disasters, man made disasters (Gulf oil spill), and acts of terrorism (the attempted Time Square bombing)), industry and governmental regulations concerning the distance between disaster recovery sites and redundancy levels continue to tighten. In addition, highprofile customer data security breaches have led to calls for stricter regulatory compliance controls across industries (Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and European Union Privacy laws). - more info
Improve your RTO and RPO
How long can your Enterprise afford to be without your data? With an accelerated disaster recovery program, you never have to answer this question. Download this outline learn how the Janco Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more.
Disaster Recovery Guide
Business Continuity PlanningISO 27001, ISO 27002, ISO 17799, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA Compliant
What is Disaster Recovery and how does the Disaster Recovery Planning Template help?
This DRP Template can be used for any sized enterprise.
The template and supporting material have been updated to be Sarbanes-Oxley compliant. The complete package includes:
- Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Template
- Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire
- Work Plan
- Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Audit Program
With lost data being a competitive liability, there is no room for downtime in today's business world.
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Disadvantages of tape as backup media
Tape is used for backup and archive because it is very inexpensive, but it is an old technology that has been available almost since the dawn of computing. There are several issues with tape-based backup:
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- Tape-based backup is a time-intensive process that is potentially disruptive to your applications; this issue is commonly referred to as the backup window problem.
- Because of its impact on applications and resources, tape-based backups are usually not performed more than once a day, and often only once every several days, meaning that
there are very few tape-based recovery points available for use over the course of a week.- Because your data is changing very frequently (on the order of seconds or minutes), fewer recovery points mean you are risking the loss of large amounts of current data for a given recovery.
- Once it is clear that a recovery needs to occur, it takes time to perform recovery tasks including locating the correct tape, transporting it (if it's offsite), restoring it to disk and restarting the application with the recovered data.
- As a storage media for backup, tape is not entirely reliable; in fact, leading analyst groups state that as many as 1 in 4 backup tapes suffer from some sort of problem that precludes performing a recovery
