What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?
Unfortunately, disaster can strike a business at any moment, and without preparation and data protection, half of businesses will not survive. It is crucial to a business to access their IT infrastructure and understand what steps can be taken to minimize the damage caused by a disaster. Disaster recovery is the practice of anticipating a disaster and planning, surviving, and recovering from that disaster. A disaster recovery plan is a written plan that enables businesses to respond quickly to a disaster and take immediate action to reduce the damage and resume operations as soon as possible.
A disaster recovery plan typically includes:
- Emergency procedures to be followed by staff when a disaster occurs
- Critical IT assets and their maximum allowed outage time
- Tools and technology solutions to be used for recovery
- A disaster recovery team, their contact information and communication procedure
It is also important to understand:
- Your threats
- Your assets
- Your recovery time objective (RTO)
- Your recovery point objective (RPO)
You must have a way to replicate data between multiple recovery sites, so it is crucial to integrate that into the plan. Just like a business system can fail in a disaster, so can backups, so it is important to evaluate backups and the restoration of service.
Does your business have a disaster recovery plan? If not, do not wait any longer. Disaster can strike at any moment! Need help getting started? Let the expert team at 2W Tech help. Give us a call.
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