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• Using a Disaster Recovery Plan template takes the
  pain of creating a plan from scratch.
• The term Disaster Recovery Plan is defined by the
  Disaster Recovery Institute as a written plan
  for recovering one or more information systems at
  an alternate facility in response to a major
  hardware or software failure or destruction of
  facilities
• Also, the term disaster recovery plan and
  business continuity plan are sometimes used
  interchangeably, but in reality these two terms
  are related to each other but have different
  objectives.
• A Disaster Recovery Plan should be written to
  enable the recovery of an IT system or systems.

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• A business continuity plan, or BCP, is a plan
  that its scope includes recovering all critical
  functions of an organization, not only IT systems
  supported functions of an organization.
• Your Disaster Recovery Plan, or DRP, needs some
  important ingredients to ensure it is effective
  and remains effective overtime.

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• Its common to use a Disaster Recovery Plan
  template to ensure the common elements, or
  subjects covered, are part of your Disaster
  Recovery Plan, the key elements of a robust DRP
  are
• System Overview
• Communication and Control
• Authority to activate or invoke the DRP
• Infrastructure recovery
• Software recovery including database, middleware
• Data Recovery
• Network Recovery
• Application Testing
• User Testing and Acceptance
• Plan Maintenance Governance

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• Recovering IT Systems needs to be conducted very
  carefully. Recovering systems incorrectly or
  recovering data to the wrong point in time has
  the potential to cause major issues and long term
  problems.
• Disaster Recovery Plans should be written to
  include a comprehensive system and data
  validation phase.
• During the validation phase, key members of the
  business (normally the business owner of the
  system/s) can validate the recovered systems data
  integrity before the system is made live or
  handed back to the user base. This simple but
  important phase can ensure that corrupt or bad
  data is not utilised or transferred to
  interconnected systems.

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• Using a Disaster Recovery Plan template is a
  convenient way to ensure that your plan covers
  all the main areas, and reduce the likelihood of
  missing important information or recovery
  instructions.
• Maintaining your DRP is vitality important.
  Integrating your recovery plan maintenance into
  your business and IT change management processes
  is by far the best way to keep your DRP up to
  date and viable in the event of a catastrophe.
• However, making and sticking to a schedule to
  make sure your disaster recovery plan is reviewed
  at least annually, and/or in the event of a
  significant business change, will make sure
  keeping inline industry best practices.

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• Last but not least, the key to every successful
  disaster recovery plan is testing! Test, Test,
  and then test it again!. The only way to prove a
  DRP is effective is to test it. Read about
  different methods of testing your DR Plan here

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