Strategic Disaster Recovery

   Disaster recovery plan is a recorded policy and/or process that is designed to assist an organization in executing recovery processes in response to a disaster to protect business IT infrastructure and more generally promote recovery. The purpose of a disaster recovery plan is to comprehensively explain the consistent actions that must taken before, during and after a natural or man-made disaster so that the entire team can take those actions. A disaster recovery plan should address both man-made disasters that are intentional such as fallout from terrorism or hacking or accidental such as an equipment failure. Organizations of all sizes generate and manage massive amounts of data, much of it mission critical. The impact of corruption or data loss from human error, hardware failure malware, or hacking can be substantial. Therefore, it is essential to create a disaster recovery plan for the restoration of business data from a date backup image.

  A statement of goals will outline what the organization wants to achieve during or after a disaster, including the recovery time objective ( RTO) and the recovery point objective ( RPO). The recovery point objective refers to how much data the company is willing to lose after a disaster occurs. For example, an RPO might be to lose no more than one hour of  data, which means data backups must occur at least every hour to meet this objective. Recovery time objective or RTO refers to the acceptable downtime after an outage before business processes and systems must be restored to operation. Development of a post-disaster recovery plan, which is integrated with the community comprehensive plan, emergency operations capital improvement plan and mitigation plan, can speed recovery and prepare the community to reduce the impact of future disasters.