Practical Disaster Recovery Planning

The primary goal of this guide is not simply to provide a checklist of tasks, but to help you develop an understanding of the disaster recovery (DR) planning process and the principles that underlie it. Before getting into the details, let’s consider first just what this guide will do for you and equally importantly, what it will not do. What this guide will do is to lay out a framework for DR planning that keeps things conceptually simple and helps you know what steps must be carried out and why, without a lot of jargon or unnecessary formality. The framework we’ll use is equally relevant to disaster recovery planning for a division of a large multi-national corporation and for an operation involving a dozen people in a small office. Of course the scales of the tasks involved in these two cases differ rather drastically.