IT Disaster Recovery - planning and writing effective plans

Name: IT Disaster Recovery - planning and writing effective plans
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No-nonsense guide to planning and writing a IT Disaster Recovery Plan and FREE templates

Created byMark Grey

Last updated 12/2025

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What you'll learn

Understand the importance of Disaster Recovery reporting
The difference between Disaster reporting and business continuity
How to assess your workplace assets and measure recovery time and recovery point
How to write your own DR plan and how to maintain it

Course content

6 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 30m total length

What is Disaster Recovery Planning and the process5:33
This video will help understand what exactly disaster recovery is and how to do it
What's the difference between DR planning and business continuity?2:31
Its important to understand the difference between Disaster Recovery plans and Business Continuity. This video will help with that.
Scenarios you may be planning for10:10
Identify likely disaster scenarios, from cyber incidents and encrypted data to environmental outages, and assess weaknesses and response strategies across multi-site and cloud backups.

Identifying risks - Pre-Mortem Workshop5:17
Identify risks with a pre-mortem workshop by imagining a project failure, using a two-column approach to capture reasons and how they might happen, and log and mitigate those risks.
SWOT analysis - use this at a high level to understand your potential weaknesses5:33
Use SWOT analysis to quickly snapshot your business or project by mapping strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats on a board, then theme and prioritize insights for a semiannual review.
Business Impact Analysis - who to talk to and what to do10:30
Identify critical business functions through stakeholder workshops to measure impacts, define recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives, and guide effective disaster recovery planning.
Recovery plans9:25
Develop clear step by step recovery plans for each critical function using a provided template, prioritize by recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives, and implement concise, service-specific communication protocols.
Roles & Responsibilities - use this workshop to define roles during a disaster5:04
Define roles and responsibilities in a concise workshop to remove ambiguity, detailing who does what, when, and how, with discuss and decide for roles like product manager and tester.
Considerations for Recovery Strategies9:15
Explore practical recovery strategies for critical services, including data backups, replication, cloud disaster recovery, high availability, failover and load balancing, plus incident response, testing, and hot or cold site options.
Using AI to help you in this process2:53
Leverage internet-connected AI to build a business impact analysis and recovery strategies for cloud infrastructure, exploring scenarios, data backup, redundancy, and a basic disaster recovery plan.

Overview of the key components of your DR plan6:36
Define the plan scope and data types, align with business impact analysis results and recovery time and recovery point, and outline recovery steps, communication, testing, training, and vendor contacts.
Testing your DR plan7:21
Test your disaster recovery plan by simulating a cyber attack, validating failover to the secondary data center, and evaluating recovery time and recovery point objectives.
5 whys workshop - use this to narrow down any problem statements after a test4:42
Apply the five whys workshop to uncover root causes, engage stakeholders, and break down technical barriers in a professional setting, illustrated by a 3d printer example.

Requirements

No experience required, just an understanding of business management will help

Description

Feeling overwhelmed by complex online courses that leave you more confused than prepared?

This course is designed for you. If you're looking for a straightforward and practical way to learn essential skills, you've come to the right place. We focus on clear explanations, actionable steps, and no fluff.

Master the topic in record time with our concise and focused lessons.
Gain the confidence to apply your knowledge in real-world situations.
Save valuable time and energy by avoiding unnecessary information overload.

We cover:

1. what is Disaster Recovery

2. Types of disasters you may need to plan for

3. How to write a Business Impact Analysis

4. How to write an effective DR plan

5. How to test your DR plan

The best bit? We also provide you no nonsense templates to do each of these areas, and some workshops to help you get the information you need!

I also include a FREE Ebook on IT policies at the end of the course!

With all of my courses I also offer the chance to reach out and a quick response to any question, so please feel free to ask anything!

Enroll today and experience the difference of a simple, no-nonsense learning experience.

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested in IT or business management

IT Disaster Recovery - planning and writing effective plans

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 18min

Starting the conversations7 lectures • 48min

Writing your IT Disaster Recovery plan3 lectures • 19min

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Conclusion and FREE Ebook1 lecture • 6min

BONUS Lesson - check this out1 lecture • 1min

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