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IT Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist

We are living in the golden era of technology. The cloud has elevated
the gauge for businesses. Today, the technology steers most of the
aspects of our life. From positioning complicated workloads to
maximising large-scale productivity, the cloud has made our daily
operations nearly effortless.

With great power comes great responsibility and managing such


complexity may encompass some possible risky disasters. It is crucial
for the business to forecast a Disaster Recovery Plan. DR plan is
basically a structured plan of action that helps in restoring your data
and recover your entire infrastructure ensuring its safety in case of a
disaster. A cloud DR plan offers organizations several benefits
including saving time/capital, increased backup locations, higher
reliability, and scalability. We have pondered the difficulty of
carrying out a disaster recovery plan before its arrival but forecasting
and managing its complexity is what drives the business to its secure
future. To ensure data availability and data recovery, pertaining
disaster recovery strategies have become vital and without them,
organisations fail to protect themselves from massive loss of sensitive
data.

Considering cloud disaster recovery for the first time and wondering
where to start? Here’s an easy checklist for you that will help you
plan an effective disaster recovery strategy:

Step 1: Assimilate your infrastructure and outline the threats

Your IT infrastructure is your gold mine. It contains all your assets,


hardware, and your data which makes it extremely important to
understand your infrastructure as a priority. It is critical to
acknowledge and assess all the data that is being stored in your
infrastructure and how much of it is of actual worth. Your data is of
top tier priority and needs ultimate protection. To do so, consolidate
and streamline the aspects that may make it easier for the backup and
for the recovery of data in the future. Once you’ve got this aspect
sorted, escalate towards evaluating the risks that might affect in the
future or the ones that are more likely to. It may include natural
disasters, power outages, cyber-attacks, and any other disruptive
events. By outlining the threats, you would be subconsciously
prepared for them which will give you an edge over the rest.

Step 2: Design a DR plan based on your RPO and RTO


The next step to move on to is to conduct a Business Impact Analysis
which will help you understand the limitations of your business
operations once a disaster strike. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and
RTO (Recovery Time Objective) criteria is the soul of your disaster
recovery plan. RPO represents the maximum amount of data that can
be lost before causing inimical harm to the organization. It takes
minutes and ensures your business’ credibility. RTO represents the
amount of time an application can be down and still won’t result in
any significant destruction of your business. It can take around one
week to set up.
Setting your goals for recovery point and recovery time objectives can
prove to be crucial in an effective disaster recovery plan. After
determining your RPO and RTO, escalate on designing a system that
meets your DR goals accordingly.

Step 3: Choose the Right Cloud Service Provider


Since the evaluation and design of your approach is done, the next
step for your infrastructure would be to choose a cloud service
provider which will help you in the deployment. When your business
is hit with a disaster and you don’t have remote backup for that, your
primary data solution may be lost forever. The platinum standard for
remote data backup is cloud-based solutions. It automatically
downloads and copy data every few days (or even every few hours).
All the prominent trusted cloud service provider has disaster recovery
options as the trick under their sleeve. The cloud provider would
assist you with scalability, usability, reliability, security and many
more. In addition, if the data stored in your system is physically
damaged, such as by fire, flood, or physical tampering, the data stored
in the backup can be used to cover your loss. This helps to minimize
business disruptions.
Step 4: Place your Disaster Recovery Plan in order
A standard set of guidelines with specific instructions are strictly
designed for everyone involved in the disaster recovery process. It is
expected from each individual to be prepared for any disaster. A
specific responsibility is assigned to everyone as per the DR plan.
When a disaster occurs, everyone takes charge to the disaster
accordingly. All the instructions are clearly stated in the plan, with the
finest details considering all the possibilities in mind. The disaster
may be unpredictable but considering all the unforeseen possibilities
that may go south is what makes your plan a success for your
business. It is crucial to follow the said steps to ensure the
effectiveness of the DR plan.

A detailed DR plan exceedingly helps in the streamlining the business


and rendering it more profitable and resilient even before any
occurrence of a disaster.

disaster recovery planning exceedingly helps in streamlining the


business and rendering it more profitable and resilient even before any
occurrence of a disaster.
Step 5: Assess your DR plan constantly
Constructing a DR plan for your business is the primary task but
knowing if the plan would work when required is the most crucial
one. Once your DR plan is placed in order, the next step involves
testing your DR plan and more often. It ensures that there is no
chance of ambiguity, for which it is important to systematically test
your DR plan. Your first test might not as per your expectations but as
you move forward with the consistent tests, your DR plan gets further
developed to enhance your infrastructure. Testing the plan
periodically helps you find ways to improve your DR plan in the long
run. It helps to make your business more resilient against disasters of
all kinds.

No business be it small or large is completely secure of any


mishappening. Every business requires a backup for the backup.
ThoughtSol provides highly available, secure, and scalable
infrastructure and services that enable you recover your cloud
workloads quickly, reliably, and securely.

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