Off Topic-Disaster Recovery Plan?

I approached this by thinking what is the maximum disaster I can recover
from within 24 hours with the budget I have to work with. By defining that
parameter it cuts out the extremes like bombs, extreme weather and EMP
explosion in the upper atmosphere, thats a different project. That pretty
much boils down to server loss, in some form or another. So that boils down
to computer, data recovery, and network communication. Then look at each
component and address each potential loss condition that you can reasonablly
deal with. This gives you a plan for recovery, and also a plan for
improvements to submit to management. If they reject your improvements keep
paper copies of your recomendations around just in case the worse happens.

Shirley H. Graver
Systems Administrator
Rubber Associates Inc. (Certified to QS9000/ISO9002)
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio


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hi all,

i'm just curious to know if anyone has any rough guidlines to help me through drafting a disaster recovery plan? i'm really not sure where to start or end seeing as i have never done anything like this before. what exactly should be in this sort of plan? how do i know if i did it right? any help would be greatly appreciated.....also if anyone even knows where i can see what one looks like it would be great!! thanks alot!!





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There is some good information at http://www.disasterplan.com

Rick
I have been writing such a plan for three years. Always seems to get the
lowest priority so it is always a work-in-process. I'm no expert but here
are a few ideas:

1. I call it a "Disaster Prevention and Recovery Plan" with emphasis on
prevention as in redundancy and alternative options. Weigh prevention cost
against likelyhood X incident cost. It helps to know the cost per hour of
downtime.

2. Don't write a plan for every possible scenario - lump them together on a
grid according to Scope (1=PC, 2=Network, 3=Server, 4=facility wide,
5=regional)
Severity (1=live with, 2=replace component, 3=short term unavailable, 4=long
term, 5=destroyed)
Business Impact/Cost (1=none, 2=low, 3=medium, 4=high, 5=Shutdown)

With these you can lump similar situations into one cell and make one plan
to fit all. Such as Nuclear War and an Asteriod Hit are both 5-5-5 and no
plan will help but coffee on a keyboard is a 1-2-1 (or 1-2-2) as a "Monitor
fell off desk" might also be.

3. It is all the 3-3-4 to 4-5-4 situations that get nasty (like fire in
computer room) but most of these will be similar (alternative server, source
for replacements, off-site facilities, etc...) so now you can match any code
to various modular recovery options.

4. Keep a copy of the plan off-site (such as at home).

Just some bits to stimulate thought. Good Luck.

-Todd C.

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hi all,

i'm just curious to know if anyone has any rough guidlines to help me
through drafting a disaster recovery plan? i'm really not sure where to
start or end seeing as i have never done anything like this before. what
exactly should be in this sort of plan? how do i know if i did it right? any
help would be greatly appreciated.....also if anyone even knows where i can
see what one looks like it would be great!! thanks alot!!





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