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Data Center Disaster Recovery Plan

This document provides a template and checklist for assessing a data center's disaster recovery plan. The template includes sections to review any existing disaster recovery plans, analyze past incidents, evaluate threats from the building construction and location like proximity to roads or earthquake zones, and assess parking facilities. It recommends analyzing plans against standards and validating plans based on past incident assessments.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Plan

This document provides a template and checklist for assessing a data center's disaster recovery plan. The template includes sections to review any existing disaster recovery plans, analyze past incidents, evaluate threats from the building construction and location like proximity to roads or earthquake zones, and assess parking facilities. It recommends analyzing plans against standards and validating plans based on past incident assessments.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Plan Template and Development

Checklist
By Paul Kirvan, CISA, CISSP, FBCI

Use this template as a handy guide when performing a data center disaster recovery plan assessment.
For more information on how to use this template, read SearchDisasterRecovery's article on data center
disaster recovery plan templates.

Assessment Item Recommended Action

Existing data center disaster recovery


plans

Review plans if available

Analyze against standards, e.g., NIST SP


800-34, BS 25777, ISO 24762

Validate based on results of assessment

Review previous incidents

What occurred?

What was the impact to the organization?

How did the organization respond?

What were the results of the response?

Threats

Building construction

Type of construction

Date of construction

Structural integrity

Floor loading per square foot

Building location
Assessment Item Recommended Action

Proximity to major highways, streets

Proximity to rail lines

Proximity to aircraft flight paths

Location with regard to bodies of water,


e.g., rivers, lakes, oceans

Traffic control devices

Proximity to other buildings

Proximity to earthquake zone

Weather patterns

CCTV cameras around the site

Parking facilities

Parking layout

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