Disaster Recovery Plan

Disaster Recovery Basic Planning

Reginald McInnis

CIS 359 Disaster Recovery

Strayer University

Instructor: Professor Dammlash Gebre

As we all know, disasters can come in any shape or form whenever it is a hurricane, earthquake, tornado, flood, fire, or any natural disaster it is important to have a disaster recovery plan in place in order to keep the business going and to recover as quickly as possible. one of the most important aspects of developing a disaster recovery plan is the writing process. The writing a plan isn't hard to do, remember it is telling a story with the basic concepts of who, what, where, when, why, and how of a process. (Kildow, 2004) (Wallace & Webber, 2011)

Throughout your plan writing process, keep in mind that emergencies affect people in different ways. Some individuals will panic, others will sit and wait for the expert, and some will make excuses and leave. The goal of the plan is to reduce the craziness by providing some direction to the onsite people so they can stay focused on the task ahead of them like continue the recovery process. (Gregory, 2008) (Wallace & Webber, 2011)

The business continuity plans come in many forms according to local requirements and the preferences of the person writing them. For example there are four plans:

Administrative plan-contains reference information common to all plans such as vendor call lists, recovery strategy, risk assessment, etc. (Wallace & Webber, 2011) (Mitroff, 2005)

Pandemic management plan-actions the company will take to minimize the impact of a pandemic. Unlike a data center disaster whose recovery can be completed in a few hours or days, a pandemic can easily run for 18 months or more. (Wallace & Webber, 2011) (Mitroff, 2005) (Myers, 2006) (Gregory, 2008)

Technical recovery plan-many independent plans that contain the step by step actions to recovery of a specific process or IT system...