Disaster Recovery Plan

Disaster Recovery Planning "Disaster recovery planning consists of a set of activities aimed at reducing the likely hood and limiting the impact of disaster events on critical business processes" Togio (2000). The disaster recovery plan, which should address various levels of response to a number of possible disasters and should provide for partial or complete recovery of all data, application software, network components, and physical facilities. The recovery plan should have specific goals for different types …

…Record Dispersal. Another strategy for data and documentation recovery is to distribute copies of critical data across other locations. For this purpose, an organisation maintains redundant data centres. If the original copy of the data is destroyed in a disaster, its copies can be used readily. Record re-creation. In this strategy managers or IT personnel take input from customers and data users. However depending on the size of the organisation, this strategy is time consuming.