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A well-structured Disaster Recovery Plan ensures that your organization’s computer network and critical IT systems can recover from a disaster with minimal impact. Regularly testing, updating, and refining the plan is key to ensuring its effectiveness in the event of a real-world disaster.

If however no plan was in-place, we can help you recover critical data even from legacy systems going back to Windows NT.

Disaster Recovery Procedures

Incident Response: Define how to detect and respond to a disaster. Have a communication plan to inform key stakeholders (employees, customers, etc.).

Recovery Steps: Create detailed, step-by-step procedures for recovering network components, servers, databases, and other critical systems. This includes:

Restoring Hardware: Procedures for replacing damaged hardware.

Restoring Data: Steps for restoring data from backups.

Restoring Network Connectivity: Configuring routers, switches, and firewalls to restore network communication.

Failover Procedures: Steps to switch services to backup systems or sites (e.g., load balancers, secondary servers).

Prioritization: Ensure recovery steps are prioritized based on critical systems and RTOs.

Key Components of a Disaster Recovery Plan

Risk Assessment: Identify potential threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., cyberattacks, natural disasters, hardware failure).
Business Impact Analysis (BIA): Assess the criticality of different IT systems and networks. Prioritize recovery based on the impact on business operations. Define Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) (how quickly systems must be restored) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) (how much data loss is tolerable).

Maintain an updated list of hardware, software, servers, network devices, storage devices, and data backups.
Identify key services like email, database systems, web servers, file storage, and applications that must be protected and restored.

Data Backups: Implement a backup solution that includes regular, automated backups for critical data and systems. Ensure backups are stored securely offsite or in the cloud.
Backup Frequency: Base backup schedules on RPOs. For critical systems, consider real-time or daily backups.