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ITS 835 Disaster Recovery Plan

The major goals of this plan are the following:

• To minimize interruptions to the normal operations.

• To limit the extent of disruption and damage.

• To minimize the economic impact of the interruption.

• To establish alternative means of operation in advance.

• To train personnel with emergency procedures.

• To provide for smooth and rapid restoration of service.

List major servers here

Describe the backup procedures here for all servers listed above

For any disaster recovery plan, the following three elements should be addressed.

Emergency Response Procedures

To document the appropriate emergency response to a fire, natural disaster, or any other activity in order to protect lives and limit damage.

Backup Operations Procedures

To ensure that essential data processing operational tasks can be conducted after the disruption.

Recovery Actions Procedures

To facilitate the rapid restoration of a data processing system following a disaster.

Modify as needed

1. Plan Initiation

   1. Notify senior management

   2. Contact and set up disaster recovery team

   3. Determine degree of disaster

   4. Implement proper application recovery plan dependent on extent of disaster (see Section 7. Recovery plan--mobile site)

   5. Monitor progress

   6. Contact backup site and establish schedules

   7. Contact all other necessary personnel--both user and data processing

   8. Contact vendors--both hardware and software

   9. Notify users of the disruption of service

2. Follow-Up Checklist

   1. List teams and tasks of each

   2. Obtain emergency cash and set up transportation to and from backup site, if necessary

   3. Set up living quarters, if necessary

   4. Set up eating establishments, as required

   5. List all personnel and their telephone numbers

   6. Establish user participation plan

   7. Set up the delivery and the receipt of mail

   8. Establish emergency office supplies

   9. Rent or purchase equipment, as needed

   10. Determine applications to be run and in what sequence

   11. Identify number of workstations needed

   12. Check out any off-line equipment needs for each application

   13. Check on forms needed for each application

   14. Check all data being taken to backup site before leaving and leave inventory profile at home location

   15. Set up primary vendors for assistance with problems incurred during emergency

   16. Plan for transportation of any additional items needed at backup site

   17. Take directions (map) to backup site

   18. Check for additional magnetic tapes, if required

   19. Take copies of system and operational documentation and procedural manuals.

   20. Ensure that all personnel involved know their tasks

   21. Notify insurance companies

Describe the mobile site setup plan here.

Describe the communication disaster plan, (how do you plan to keep communications within your group and authorities, in case primary means are not available, such as telcos and mobile networks)

Describe the electrical services here. (Describe primary and backup)

How do you plan to protect your assets from physical and digital threats?

In successful contingency planning, it is important to test and evaluate the plan regularly. Describe how you would test your plan.