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The
primary goal of this guide is not simply to provide
a checklist of tasks, but to help you develop an understanding
of the disaster recovery planning process and the principles
that underlie it. Before getting into the details, let’s
consider first just what this guide will do for you
and, equally importantly, what it will not do.
What
this guide will do is to lay out a framework for DR
planning that keeps things conceptually simple, and
helps you know what steps must be carried out and why,
without a lot of jargon or unnecessary formality. The
framework we’ll use is equally relevant to disaster
recovery planning for a division of a large, multi-national
corporation and for an operation involving a dozen people
in a small office. Of course the scales of the tasks
involved in these two cases differ rather drastically.
The
focus here will be a practical one. Good disaster recovery
planning is about identifying those processes and resources
that are truly critical, developing realistic recovery
objectives for them, and then developing a plan that
can achieve those objectives as simply and cost-effectively
as possible.
We
will also focus on making the planning process doable,
even if this sacrifices some sophistication. The reality
is that a sophisticated DR plan that is too complex
or expensive to properly maintain and test is worse
than a plan that only does the minimum because it gives
a false sense of security.
So,
this guide is intended to help you negotiate the decisions
that you’ll need to make in order to develop an
effective, executable plan that allows your organization
to recover critical processes in order to function after
a disaster.
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