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Things to Include in

Your Disaster Recovery


Plan Checklist
Disasters can strike at any time and
can have a devastating impact on
businesses, causing significant
downtime and financial loss. In fact,
over 60% of failures result in a total
loss of at least $100,000.

>60%
of
of outages
outages
equals

100k
$$
lost*
lost*

Having a well-planned and well-executed disaster


recovery plan checklist is essential to ensuring
that your business:

Follows steps to Quickly recovers Resumes normal


protect data and from a disaster operations
operations ASAP

Your Sample DR Plan Checklist


The checklist below is meant to serve as a tool to help ensure your DR plan is
comprehensive, protects critical data, and maintains business continuity with
minimal downtime. Keep in mind that specific items included within your
checklist may vary due to the needs and risks of your organization.

1. Set RTO* and RPO* Targets


Determine the maximum RTO and RPO for each system.
It’s important to set realistic targets that are acceptable
and achievable with your current infrastructure.

2. Identify Critical Systems and Data


Make a list that includes all of the systems, data,
and applications that are critical to your
organization’s operations. i.e. identify the
minimum level of system and data availability
required to support BizOps.

3. Define Backup and Recovery Procedures


Based on the RTO and RPO targets, plan and implement
backup and recovery solutions that meet your needs. This
may involve investing in backup and DR solutions like cloud
backup or data replication.

4. Incident and Response Management


Create and write down procedures for responding to
and managing potential incidents, as well as
identifying the individuals responsible for
coordinating each response.

5. Disaster Recovery Team and Roles


Determine who within your organization should be on the
DR team and clearly define their role and responsibilities
so they’re prepared for each type of disaster.

6. Communication and Awareness Training


Provide information about the DR plan to employees,
define their roles in its implementation, and offer effective
awareness training. Doing so will not only inform, but also
may help uncover plan deficiencies.

7. Develop a Crisis Communication Plan


Create a crisis communication plan that outlines how to
communicate with, and who communicates to,
employees, customers, partners, press, and
other stakeholders in the event of a disaster.

8. Make Alternative Site Arrangements


Identify and secure alternate locations for critical
systems and data during a disaster, i.e. utilize cloud
vs on-premises or a 3rd party data center. Be sure
to consider location, accessibility, infrastructure,
and compliance.

9. Plan for Failback


Always plan for how to move operations from a temporary
site back to its primary site. Without a failback plan, your
team may encounter avoidable errors, crucial data loss,
or even major delays.

10. Monitor and Document the Failback


Process
Watch the failback process and keep careful notes
to ensure that it runs smoothly, and any systems,
applications, and infrastructure are properly
restored after failback has been completed
and tested.

11. Supplier and Vendor Management


Ensure that key supplier and vendor partnerships also
include clearly defined DR procedures. These procedures
should address interdependencies plus monitoring and
testing to minimize downtime.

12. Test and Validate the Disaster Recovery


Plan
Prevention and preparation are key to ensuring full
recovery after a disruption. Regularly test and validate your
plan to ensure it meets RTO/RPO targets and compliance
requirements.

13. Continuously Monitor and Update the Plan


In addition to scheduling routine tests, it’s mission-critical
to review and update your organization’s DR plan
on an ongoing basis to make sure it stays
rock solid, especially as new security threats
take form.

Get Expert Disaster Recovery Planning and


Protect Your Data with TierPoint
Developing and testing a strong DR plan can be difficult, not to mention
stressful. Leaving out one crucial piece or a potential scenario could hinder
your business continuity plans, hurt your brand reputation, and lead to
financial loss.

At TierPoint, our DRaaS and BaaS offerings, among others, can help you
* *

build and facilitate a DR plan that maintains resiliency for your mission-critical
data, operations, applications, and overall IT infrastructure.

Contact us today: www.tierpoint.com/contact-us

*Stat source: Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis


*RTO = Recovery Time Objective (maximum length of time to restore to normal operations)
*RPO = Recovery Point Objective (maximum amount of data loss you can accept from point of last backup)
*DRaaS = Disaster Recovery as a Service
*BaaS = Backup as a Service

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