Disaster Recovery Planning

disaster recovery plan (DRP)

-providing second-site backup -identifying critical applications -performing backup and off-site storage procedures -creating a disaster recovery team -testing the DRP

identifying critical applications

identify apps that support functions that generate cash flows sufficient to short term obligations

empty shell

-company has building serve as a data center -weakness: recovery depends on timely availability of necessary computer hardware to restore data processing function

providing second-site backup

-empty shell -recovery operations center (ROC) -internally provided backup

internally provided backup

-for large companies with multiple data processing centers that ROC cannot provide enough recover for -create their own

ROC

-fully equipped backup data center that many companies share through an annual fee -used in 9/11 -weakness: potential for competition among users for ROC resources

performing backup and off-site storage procedures

1. backup data files 2. backup documentation 3. backup supplies and source documents