Disaster Recovery: It’s More Than a Plan – It’s a Process
The most important aspects of an effective disaster recovery is planning and training, which both need to be done far ahead of the event.
The planning process is more important than the plan itself. Having a strong plan with policies and standard operating procedures will ensure your organization’s survival.
Disaster planning is really about the process and less about the technology for disaster recovery. The plan should serve as the framework and general direction to follow but cannot take into account every scenario or contingency. There is no way to train for all disasters.
However, having a strong, all-hazards based core plan with policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to guide management and employees during a disaster will ensure your organization’s survival. The disaster plan does not tell you how to do your job, but rather how to do your job in a compressed timeframe, under stress, and possibly without all your organizations resources in place.
See Disaster Recovery: It’s More Than a Plan – It’s a Process, by Adam Montella of Animus.
Tags: Disaster Recovery, Training
