Is your Company ready to deal with a disaster?
Disaster Recovery (DR) is a tough game. It's a critical component of IT and risk mitigation strategies, and compounded in difficulty by ever growing data volumes, distributed computing, and new technologies. Unfortunately, DR is often one of the first line items to be slashed by budget cuts.
Disasters can come in all shapes and sizes, from natural disasters (floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes) to emergencies resulting from an accident (burst water pipe), deferred maintenance (leaking roof), or negligence (fire or mold). An effective response will be determined by how well prepared you are to deal with a disaster.
Disaster planning is an essential component of preserving your institution’s collections. With a written disaster plan, libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other collection-holding institutions can reduce the risk of disaster and minimize losses. dPlan is perfect for small and medium-sized institutions that do not have in-house preservation staff. dPlan is also valuable for large library systems or museum campuses that need to develop separate but related plans for multiple buildings, locations, or branches.
The Disaster Recovery Planning Template can help you create a plan for disaster prevention and response. Modify the MS WORD template to create a customized disaster plan for your institution. This plan will help you:
- prevent or mitigate disasters,
- prepare for the most likely emergencies,
- respond quickly to minimize damage if disaster strikes, and
- recover effectively from disaster while continuing to provide services to your community.
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