Disaster Recovery Planning Template

Disaster Recovery Planning Template
Business Continuity Plan
Sarbanes - Oxley - HIPAA Compliant

  

 

This Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) template can be used by any size enterprise. The template and supporting material have been updated to be Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.  The Disaster Recovery Planning Documentation comes as a Word document and includes:

  • Disaster Recovery Plan Template

  • Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire

  • Work Plan

Included in the template is Business Impact Questionnaire as well as a full Job Description for the Disaster Recovery Manager.  The premium edition contains 11 full job descriptions.

New with version 4.1 (version history) are (Sarbanes Oxley 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

Clients can also subscribe to Janco's DRP update service and receive all updates to the DRP Template for 18 months* from the date of purchase. 

The DRP template is over 180 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

  • Disaster Recovery Manager Responsibilities

  • Distribution of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Maintenance of the Business Impact Analysis

  • Training of the Disaster Recovery Team

  • Testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Evaluation of the Disaster Recovery Plan Tests

  • Maintenance of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  

Testimonial - Dave Baker - City of Hamilton - I have found the DRP template invaluable!

Testimonial - Bob Rifenbury -MCSE/CCNA Lauch Testing Lab - The DRP Template saved me about 6 months of work!

Testimonial -  Kelly Keeler - Martin's Point Health Care - I have received and I began using the template immediately. IT IS GREAT! Made this process a snap for me. Cut my documentation time down from.  weeks to hours! This document has made, what began to be an overwhelming process turn into a snap!

Testimonial - Juan Stamos - Mexico City Corporation - We had a DRP in place, but needed a more user friendly structure.  The Disaster Recovery Template (Gold edition) has that structure.  It was very easy to quickly move our DRP into Janco's DRP Template -- a real added value.


* Update service is for 12 months unless it is purchased within 30 days of the purchase of the Template.  Janco reserves the right to validate purchase of the customer was made for the template.

 

This template is not for resale or re-distribution - Disaster Recovery Planning Template Disaster Recovery Template, Disaster Recovery

 

Site Map

 

The New Business Continuity Professional: Why the Business Continuity Professional Role is Transforming and How to Make the Transformation Now! - 

10/17/2006 - Please join us for a 30-minute Web seminar that will help you understand what it takes to transform yourself into a 21st-century expert who manages the recovery, resilience, and continuity of an entire organization. Published by: IBM Global Services -

Disaster Recovery Planning: Data Management - 

09/27/2006 - In the second of three Podcasts, Jon Toigo explores how to take a top-down approach to looking at data to make sure you are attaching the right level of protection to the right data. Published by: CA -

Disaster Recovery Planning: Recovery on a Budget - 

09/27/2006 - Starting with testing techniques, this Podcast with DR guru Jon Toigo gives you tips on the best ways to get data back should disaster strike. Published by: CA -

Disaster Recovery Planning: The Basics - 

09/27/2006 - In lesson one of this DR Planning Podcast series, DR expert Jon Toigo will explain how the new realities of business make DR planning an essential element of daily process, procedure, product development and procurement. Published by: CA -

Business Continuity and Availability - Protecting your Business with Storage - 

08/16/2006 - Connect with a top Gartner analyst and HP technology expert to discover why it is important to have a robust business continuity and availability plan. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company -

Ensuring User Continuity: The user has evolved. Have your IT systems? - 

08/01/2006 - This Webcast provides an overview of Disaster Recovery and high availability solutions to minimize critical time lost. Published by: Neverfail -

Fortify Your Infrastructure and Unburden IT with Blade PCs Podcast - 

07/25/2006 - Download this podcast to learn how, Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) centralizes desktop compute and storage resources into more easily managed, highly secure data centers. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company -

On the Radar: Upgrade Agony - 

12/31/1969 - Learn from my mistakes. Just a little planning can go a long way to averting a security upgrade disaster. Published by: Information Security Magazine -

WarLock Software Disaster Recovery v.3.1 - 

12/31/1969 - Continuous file replication is an essential part of any reliable Disaster Recovery plan. Designed for SMBs, this free trial IT download from WarLock software provides disk-to-disk file replication between Windows Shares and local or remote data vaults. Published by: WarLock Software -

Justifying a Recovery Plan for Everyday Disasters - 

12/31/1969 - Active Directory is a critical element of every Windows environment and service interruptions are a costly security risk. Learn why every organization should have an Active Directory Disaster Recovery plan in place and get best practices for creating one. Published by: Quest Software Inc. -

You Could Win an Xbox - Just for Trying Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory - 

12/31/1969 - Recovery Manager for Active Directory from Quest Software is the leading solution for protecting Active Directory from everyday threats like unexpected downtime or employee tampering. Download today and be entered to win an Xbox 360 core system. Published by: Quest Software Inc. -

To Protect and Encrypt: Safeguarding Stored Data - 

12/31/1969 - This session from Storage Decisions New York 2006, W. Curtis Preston shows you how protect your data and keep your company from making the wrong kind of headlines. Published by: Storage Decisions sponsored by Spectra Logic Corporation -

Three-node Disaster Recovery Topologies - 

12/31/1969 - The risk to revenue and reputation from an extended outage is real. Learn how these consequences can be avoided with a three-node disaster recovery topology. Published by: Hitachi Data Systems -

Disaster Recovery: Test, Test and Test Some More - 

12/31/1969 - As Hurricane Katrina proved, a DR plan is worthless unless it's tested thoroughly. Published by: Storage Magazine -

Top 10 Reasons for Using Disk-based Online Server Backup and Recovery - 

12/31/1969 - 93% of businesses that lose data to a disaster go out of business in 2 years. Learn the top 10 reasons why SMBs are embracing online server backup and recovery for automatic and continuous backup, and reliable server data disaster recovery. Published by: Iron Mountain Digital -

Automate Data Recovery - 

12/31/1969 - Put policy managers to work to automate various rule-based data recovery functions. Published by: Storage Magazine -

Disaster Recovery: It's All about the Data! - 

12/31/1969 - Test your disaster recovery plan before you have to worry about your disaster recovery plan. In this presentation from Storage Decisions New York, 2006 get tips on best practices for deploying a disaster recovery plan for your organization. Published by: Storage Decisions sponsored by Spectra Logic Corporation -

E-Guide: Exchange Server Disaster Recovery - 

12/31/1969 - Developing disaster recovery (DR) plans for Exchange is particularly challenging in today's enterprise environments. This checklist provides a detailed look at the nine steps necessary for an effective and reliable DR plan. Published by: McDATA Corporation -

What Your DR Plan Should Protect - 

12/31/1969 - Many DR plans aren't based on the data's value to the company. Here's how to protect your critical data more effectively while reducing costs. Published by: Storage Magazine -

Real Disaster Recovery Testing - 

12/31/1969 - It's not enough to have a DR plan--you need to know it will work. Repetitive, detailed tests will tell you if your DR plan is up to snuff. Published by: Storage Magazine -