First question. What is needed for the business to continue to operate. Everything else stems from that basic question. Don't drive yourself nuts with weird scenarios and what if's yet. Work with your management to * define* what your company needs to operate (i.e. make money and continue <_ahem_ to pay you>). List all that out. Everything, even silly sounding things that you may forget like 'a room with lights and power but can be a small room because we will have vpn'). Once you have defined that which is needed to generate revenue, you can do all the other things.
Don't think in terms of recovery starting out, think in terms of what your company does that allows it to continue to function. Once you have all that you can decide what things are important and how important. Then you can start assigning values and costs from which everything else will flow. Once you have that, you can then start defining 'likely scenarios' (flooding, tornado, earthquake, robbery, riot, snow) and implement based on budget and feasibility. Now you may just be tasked with 'IT Disaster' but frankly doing a DR plan without the business involvement of what is actually important to continuing revenue (i.e. HR system because if we don't pay people they will fail to show up and we will stop generating revenue) your DR plan may look pretty bound up in a folder but will be a complete fail. The link others gave you will be useful, but really, there is only one question. After that, it's planning and what risk level the business is willing to accept. Steven On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:01 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected] > wrote: > Let me know what you find. We have a D/R plan, of sorts, but I think it’s > woefully inadequate, but like you, I don’t really know where to start. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jay Dale [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:23 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* DR Plan > > > > Hey all, > > > > I’ve been assigned to create a DR plan for our company, but I’ve never > actually had to come up with one before. Does anyone have any ideas, > templates, examples, or sites that can help me with this? Basically it > needs to cover our current infrastructure, if we purchase a SAN in the > future, and if we change our existing backup strategy from a local backup to > an offsite replication backup. > > > > Thanks! > > > > *Jay Dale* > > I.T. Manager, 3GiG > > Mobile: 713.299.2541 > > Email: [email protected] > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may > contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the > intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and > attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive > information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply > e-mail and delete all copies of this message. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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