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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
&
Disaster Recovery
No DRP and often little motivation for a
DRP.
• Critical systems?
• Key processes and applications?
• Dependencies on other systems?
Start
A
Does current
Global IT Business N DR plan Y Y
DR plan require Approval received?
passes tests?
Operations modification?
A A
Review changes made
to Global IT
environment (1) Y N N
C
Establish a
multidiscipline team (2) Multi-disciplined Multi-disciplined Multi-disciplined
Identify Business
Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery
Continuity / Disaster
Recovery team Planning Team Planning Team Planning Team
members (3) Identify within current Modify DR plan as Modify new DR plan to
plan areas that require necessary & re-test address reviewers
additional work to plan (11) concerns (14)
mitigate new risk (7) Determine if
Multi-disciplined Develop new DR plan modifications to plan
B
Disaster Recovery (8) requires additional
Planning Team testing (15)
C
Perform business risk
Multi-disciplined
assessment to Multi-disciplined
determine current risk / Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery Planning Team
future risk profile (4)
Document & Planning Team
Submit DR plan to Plan requires
communicate business Determine what testing additional testing due
Senior Management for Y
risk assessment results has to be performed on to modifications?
approval (12)
& risk profile to Global DR plan (9)
IT Senior Management C
Team (5) B
Review current
Global IT Senior N
Disaster Recovery plan
Multi-disciplined Management
to determine if new risk
profile is mitigated Disaster Recovery Multi-disciplined
Planning Team Review new / changed
within current DR plan Disaster Recovery
(6) DR plan (13)
Test DR plan (10) Planning Team
Re-submit to Senior
Management for
approval (16)
B
Documentation:
Progress.
Phase Three: Post-Planning Scheduled Flow.
• Awareness and training of Stakeholders
• Create organizational awareness
• Enhance skills
• Maintaining and exercising
• Coordinate plan exercises
• Evaluate and document exercise results
• Develop process to maintain the plan
• Report results clearly and concisely
• Coordination and communication
• Communication with media, families,
suppliers
Independent of the underlying
• Crisis coordination with first responders,
local authorities systems being recovered.
Technology?
Match the Tools to the Business Needs
Wks Days Hrs Mins Secs Secs Mins Hrs Days Wks
Sync. Clustering
Replication
Async. Remote
Replication Replication
Online
Tape or Disk Restore Tape
Backup Restore
Load Balancer
Web Cache Application
Java Server Tier
Clusters
Database
Tier
Server 1 Server 2
Instance ‘A’ Instance ‘B’
Database
Cleveland
Columbus
Cincinnati
Sandusky
Wide Area Clustering
Site Migration
Failover
Replication
3. Transferring Data back to Production
Machines:
• Production will need to shift from a hot site back to a
permanent location.
The key is to continue to improve the plan so that will work if and
when it is ever needed.