Disaster Recovery Primary Site Restoration: Home Sweet Home
The primary focus of Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) and efforts is to minimize revenue loss and the impact on business operations and customers.
This is achieved by recovering disrupted IT systems and services at the recovery site as quickly as possible. However, when building the DRP, planners may put the bottom line at risk by overlooking the transition back to the primary site.
Without advance planning for return to the primary site, costs related to maintaining operations at the recovery site will continue to accrue, driving up the total cost of the disruption. Making primary site restoration part of the DRP ensures that the rebuilding and repatriating activities are initiated without undue delay, and the cost associated with operating under emergency conditions will be minimized.
The cost of continuing operations at the disaster recovery (DR) site is a factor of:
- Employing inefficient manual or non-standard interim processes at the recovery site.
- Replacing critical staff lost due to the disaster.
- Cost of the availability and performance of service levels.
- Cost of housing employees in DR site locations.
- Loss of customers or market share due to inability to fully service.
- Additional vendor licensing and contract costs.
- Inability to deliver on strategic initiatives resulting in lost business opportunities.
- Loss of reputation due to inability to fulfill contracts.
See Disaster Recovery Primary Site Restoration: Home Sweet Home from Information Management.
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