The Disaster Recovery Plan
The disaster recovery plan serves as the “backup plan” to the business continuity plan. The BCP addresses issues that help prevent disasters from interrupting your business. The DRP, on the other hand, kicks into effect when your business is actually interrupted by an emergency situation.
This section examines three major aspects of the DRP—selection of a recovery facility, recovery of operational data, and restoration of normal operations. The disaster planning team should write the DRP with the intent of providing a handbook that guides personnel through the entire recovery process until operations resume under predisaster conditions.
Recovery Facilities
Selection of an alternative data processing facility is arguably ...
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