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Download the IT Disaster Recovery Plan template here.
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About this template
- An IT Disaster Recovery Plan can help you better understand existing fault detection, fault notification and escalation routes;
- Document your team roles and responsibilities for recovering systems and data within the agreed recovery time and recovery point objectives;
- Centralize all the information you need to help determine the root cause of a fault and how to recover.
- The plan can also include communication templates so you can send messages quickly during a disruptive incident.
Scroll down for a building disaster recovery plan template. The templates will need to be customized to your organization.
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Additional Disaster Recovery Plan template
In addition to the IT plan template, I also have a Disaster Recovery Plan template for a building. If you have a work area recovery site, this helps clarify how you invoke the site and prepare it. You could include maps and directions, seating plans and other helpful information in the appendices.
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Other relevant templates available to download
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Supporting Information
PURPOSE
The IT disaster recovery plan template is designed to help recover IT systems and data within scope, within the agreed recovery time and recovery point objectives. The building plan template is designed to support the invocation of a work area recovery site.
TOP TIPS
Regularly test your disaster recovery procedures to make sure you can recover within the recovery time objectives specified for the processes and activities in order to avoid an unacceptable impact. For work area recovery sites, it may be useful to do site tours so staff are familiar with where they could be relocated during a disruptive incident.
For more information on Business Continuity, we very much recommend looking at the Business Continuity Institute’s Good Practice Guidelines.
FACT
If you do not train staff and test your plan, there is no guarantee the plan will work during a disruptive incident. E.g. for work area recovery sites you could deliver a test once every other month to validate the plan and make improvements.