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Title: IT Disaster Recovery Planning

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IT Disaster Recovery Planning

Reggie Luther
TracSoft
July 18 2008

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IT Disaster Recovery Planning
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IT Disaster Recovery Planning

Why Have a IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Goals of a IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Components of a IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Backup Media
Backup Procedures

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Why Have a Disaster Recovery Plan

More vital data is being stored in computer
systems
Instant access to electronic data has become more
crucial in day-to-day business
U.S. businesses lose over 12 billion per year
because of data loss
Viruses are more prevalent more costly more
destructive and caused more real damage to data
and systems than in the past.

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Why Have a Disaster Recovery Plan

93 of companies that lost their data center for
10 days or more due to a disaster filed for
bankruptcy within one year of the disaster
50 of businesses that found themselves without
data management for this same time period filed
for bankruptcy immediately.

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Why Have a Disaster Recovery Plan

Reasons for data loss
40 Hardware Failure
29 Human Error
13 Software Corruption
9 Theft
6 Computer Viruses
3 Hardware Destruction

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Why Have a Disaster Recovery Plan

If your computer(s) died today
How much data would you lose forever because
youve never backed it up
How long would it take you to get new
hardware/software into your hands
How long would it take you to do all the setup
you need to get back where you were before the
crash

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Why Have a Disaster Recovery Plan

DRP is just as important as insurance policy to
protect business
Your hard drive WILL crash one day!
So back it up!

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Goals of an IT Disaster Plan

To minimize interruptions to the normal
operations of the business
To minimize the economic impact of the business
To establish alternative means of operation in
advance
To train personnel with emergency procedures
To provide for smooth and rapid restoration of
service
To recover lost data

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Personnel contact information
Back up site
Manual plan
Hardware inventory
Software inventory

Vendors
Data Backup and recovery procedures
Disaster Action Checklist
Test the Plan

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Personnel contact information
Who is in charge
Where is a copy of the DR plan
Who has what responsibilities
How to get in contact with everyone involved with
plan

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Back up site
If facility is damaged where will everyone
assemble
How will backup facility be configured
What supplies and equipment will be needed

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Manual plan
How does the business function manually until
systems are restored
What are paper backup procedures
What paper forms are needed
Processes documented

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Hardware inventory
What hardware is used in business
What are specific specs of hardware
How can hardware be quickly replaced

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Software inventory
What software applications are being used in the
business
Are there specific configurations of the software
How can the software be replace quickly

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Vendors
What vendors are needed to replace hardware and
software
How to contact them
Who and how will replacements be purchased

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Data Backup and recovery procedures
What procedures were used to backup data
What procedures are needed to restore data

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Disaster Action Checklist
Notify senior management
Contact and set up disaster recovery team
Determine degree of disaster
Implement proper application recovery plan
dependent on extent of disaster
Contact backup site and establish schedules
Contact all other necessary personnel
Contact vendors
Notify users of the disruption of service

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Disaster Action Checklist
List teams and tasks of each
Obtain emergency cash and set up transportation
to and from backup site if necessary
Establish user participation plan
Set up living quarters eat establishments if
necessary
Set up the delivery and the receipt of mail
Establish emergency office supplies

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan

Disaster Action Checklist
Rent or purchase equipment as needed
Determine applications to be run and in what
sequence
Identify number of workstations needed
Check all data being taken to backup site before
leaving and leave inventory profile at home
location
Plan for transportation of any additional items
needed at backup site

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Components of an IT Disaster Recovery plan