Disaster recovery planning has become a war cry in many organizations as the result of high profile natural and manmade disasters and increasingly strict regulations and laws mandating the protection and long-term retention of data -- an organization's most irreplaceable asset second only to skilled personnel.
For the next four columns, I will present an in-depth treatment of what's involved in disaster recovery planning from a practical standpoint. For those who have not previously worked on a planning project, it is hoped that this series will dispel the myths and help you focus on what needs to be done to develop an effective recovery capability.
DR planning methodologies are often branded to specific consulting practices and represented as complex and convoluted processes known only to a few privileged practitioners. But in fact, the DR planning methodology is a straightforward application of common sense that follows a pragmatic project plan similar to systems development lifecycle methodology.
As shown in this diagram, the initial DR planning project involves 10 tasks, and these may be further refined
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