ABSTRACT
Why Document It at All? Often, a technical services organization’s response will be cold when asked to produce a disaster recovery plan. e idea in the mind of technical service persons is that management does not trust them to do their job in the event of a disaster. ey can sometimes even look at the disaster recovery plan as some kind of a test to prove that they know how to do their jobs! is is certainly not the case. Virtually every organization that I personally have had the opportunity to work with is capable of recovering from a disaster under any type of circumstance. is may sound like a very surprising statement. In most large organizations the technical service staff are the persons most capable of recovering from many types of outages. Often, the very people controlling the recovery process are those who actually designed and built the system in the first place. Technicians usually know where every wire runs in the organization. Programmers are quite familiar with the internal workings of the
Contents Why Document It at All? ........................................................................133 Developing an Equipment Inventory .......................................................134 Putting the Disaster Recovery Plan to Paper ............................................143 What Should the Plan Cover? ..................................................................150 Recovery Scenarios — e ree “R’s” .................................................... 152 Summary .................................................................................................163 Chapter 6 Worksheets ..............................................................................165
