What to Include in Your Disaster Recovery Plan?

MELBOURNE, Australia - Dec. 21, 2018 - PRLog -- What would you and your business do in case of a significant emergency? Do you have a plan in place to ensure that your business is as minimally impacted as possible? While an IT disaster recovery plan might include a wide variety of points and tasks to be enacted, there are nine essential items that every single program needs to cover, just in case.

Part One: Planning

1.Familiarity

If your disaster recovery plan needs to be actioned, you want to ensure that you and your staff are familiar with the general concept behind the program. A lack of familiarity can lead to significant disruption and delay, potentially hindering any opportunity to resolve the issue quickly and succinctly.

2.Accuracy

Keeping your disaster recovery plan accurate and current is critical to ensure minimum impact on your business. Whether its accuracy around new staff member, updated equipment or even new building premises (happens more than you think), regular updates to the plan is a must so that there are no issues in the event of an emergency.

3.Testability

Like any good fire drill, it is important that you and your team are aware of how the disaster recovery plan works; without this knowledge, you run the risk of severely hampering performance when the time comes. Fundamentally, you simply want to know the broad strokes of the plan; no one expects a full run-through, just a good understanding.

Part Two: Hardware

4.Provisions

While not all disaster recovery plans are designed around natural or man-made disasters, there must be a provision in there around such incidences. If there is a need to head to an emergency shelter or meeting point, ensuring that there is appropriate food and water for any length of time is fundamental; you do not want to be left with no supplies.

5.Diagrams

One of the most critical elements of a disaster recovery guide is that it contains all you need to have your business back up and running again. Technological diagrams include network guides, phone systems and other connections are vital so that if anything is impacted you can get back on your feet quickly.

6.Guides

As an extension of our diagrams, ensuring that you have comprehensive guides towards all activities that are undertaken by staff in your organisation is crucial. You want to minimise the impact on your operations, meaning that if people are ill or have left the team, you can efficiently streamline their tasks.

Part Three: Software

7.Application Lists

Having a full list of all applications being used by the firm is critical to ensure that nothing is missed upon the resumption of activities. Missing a piece of software that might not be immediately obvious but is fundamentally vital to operations is an unfortunate result and can impact operations.

8.Maps

Knowing where everything is around you should be a part of your disaster recovery plan. Not just about buildings and streets but critical businesses and other organisations who can help can significantly minimise any impact that can occur in your company.

9.Contacts

Finally, having a full list of your organisation so that you can account for everyone is very important. Be sure to keep this updated with current staff and current contact information.

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