Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity and security experts at Janco have identified several critical steps in planning for disaster and subsequent recovery.
1. Determine how the event will impact four key areas:
· People: How will you notify, evacuate, transport and care for employees?
· Property: What equipment will you need and how will you source it?
· Systems: What portions of your computing and telecommunications infrast
· Data: What data is critical to run your business, and how will you recover critical data that is lost?
2. Determine which data, applications and systems must be restored and in what sequence. Prioritize systems as critical, vital, sensitive or noncritical, and talk to users at all levels to make sure youre not overlooking any crucial systems.
3. Analyze the hardware and software configurations that support critical business functions and isolate possible points of failure.
4. Quantify hourly costs based on interruptions of these systems.
Each of these is included in the Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template that can be found at http://www.itproductivity.org/Disaster-Recovery-Planning.htm