Disaster Recovery, Crisis Response, and Business Continuity: A Management Desk Reference

IT Disaster Recovery Testing

Things You Need to Know

Here are the keys to successful IT disaster recovery tests:

• Apply basic project management tools to DR tests
• Assign roles and responsibility
• Use a scenario-based approach
• Plan well
• Engage management
• Provide the right resources
• Test regularly
• Manage risk
• Report results quickly

The majority of this chapter expands on these aspects of successful DR testing.

Apply Basic Project Management Tools to Disaster Recovery Tests

Although IT DR testing should be part of your business-as-usual activities, each test is a project in its own right. Each test has:

• A defined starting point
• Objectives
• Deliverables ...