A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is a business plan that describes how work can be resumed quickly and efficiently after a disaster has happened. Disaster Recovery planning ensures that the goal of business continuity to be achieved while making the IT infrastructure functions properly in case of a disaster.
The overall goal of the disaster recovery plan allows the IT department to recover the data and system functionality to allow business and organization to operate possibly with a minimal level. Creating a DRP begins with formulating a DRP proposal with the upper-level management and discussing along with defining the goal and objectives for the business. After defining then a business impact analysis is needed to determine the most critical and important business functions. The requirement to get these IT components of those functions operational after a disaster can be met at the on-site and off-site.
All the employees and the department must be trained, and advice on the DRP and when implemented what will be the communication flow and process flow. The DRP must include all the comprehensive offsite data backup and on/off-site recovery plan.
The biggest issue that may be is the sourcing the alternate location with the installation of equipment but there are many places, and data centers could rent a place. Some companies can operate from a single server or so a backup machine that can be installed at a remote location and keep updating the recent backups of the essential data that is required to operate in case of any disaster. This plan can suit a small organization, but there can be more infrastructure set up for the complex IT infrastructure of the big organizations.
A DRP may require your IT staff to relocate to an alternate site to resume the functional work if work cannot be conducted on the normal business website. This hotsite is an off-site location supplied with the necessary files and folders to continue to the organization’s work. It is usually imperative and essential to develop a DRP but also test it and train the staff and document all the necessary processes before a disaster occurs. This is the reason why off-site service or a remote backup can be a good choice for the data protection in a situation of a disaster such that necessary data can be readily accessible from a new location. Your current hosting service provider can help you implement your disaster recovery plan or you can either hire a third party organization in planning, implementing and managing this contingency plan of a disaster recovery plan.
