What is disaster recovery? How could it be implemented at your school or work?
Disaster recovery is the plan and procedure organizations create to protect the organization against losing productivity for extended period during a natural or human-made disaster (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). Losing the ability to do business can be devastating for a business, especially for a business that has a high dependency on technology to do business. A disaster recovery plan is a detailed plan that includes a back- up plan for all functions, who will participate in the plan, and what hardware, software and facilities will be used (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). The disaster recovery plan will also list the priority for all functions, what is the acceptable time …show more content…
The more systems you have, the more planning you will need. Depending on the type of business you are in, the plan may include a back-up system offsite either at a different location of your organization or hosted at a third-party vendor site. A disaster recovery plan is typically written, hard copy, so it can be accessed and used in the event there are no computer systems. This plan will also include a list of the contacts for the plan and the contact information for back-up sites. Another important piece of a disaster recovery plan is training and testing. The plan is only as good if it is successful. No one wants to experience a disaster, but in the event, there is one, everyone must know what to …show more content…
For my organization, we have both. The DR covers the disruption of core services or operating systems. It addresses who is involved, and how we bring up the critical systems and functions. The BCP is on an operational level and these plans detail how staff can operate specific functions in the event systems are down and we need to still operate at some capacity. In the past few years, the DR/BCP plan for Advia has evolved. Advia used to rely on our third party vendor to provide a backup for our core platform. Now with our growth throughout the past few years, we have moved to having our own redundant system running in a different region. Advia has gone through the entire exercise of prioritizing processes, creating the plan and documenting the procedures for critical features, all the way down to the daily process. Advia also holds quarter tests of different parts of the plan. An example of my organization’s BCP is offline processing of teller transactions. In the event the core platform is down tellers have written steps on how to perform the transaction in an offline mode. There are even steps on what to do for balancing and what to do once the system comes back on line to complete the transactions and to
Disaster recovery is the plan and procedure organizations create to protect the organization against losing productivity for extended period during a natural or human-made disaster (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). Losing the ability to do business can be devastating for a business, especially for a business that has a high dependency on technology to do business. A disaster recovery plan is a detailed plan that includes a back- up plan for all functions, who will participate in the plan, and what hardware, software and facilities will be used (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). The disaster recovery plan will also list the priority for all functions, what is the acceptable time …show more content…
The more systems you have, the more planning you will need. Depending on the type of business you are in, the plan may include a back-up system offsite either at a different location of your organization or hosted at a third-party vendor site. A disaster recovery plan is typically written, hard copy, so it can be accessed and used in the event there are no computer systems. This plan will also include a list of the contacts for the plan and the contact information for back-up sites. Another important piece of a disaster recovery plan is training and testing. The plan is only as good if it is successful. No one wants to experience a disaster, but in the event, there is one, everyone must know what to …show more content…
For my organization, we have both. The DR covers the disruption of core services or operating systems. It addresses who is involved, and how we bring up the critical systems and functions. The BCP is on an operational level and these plans detail how staff can operate specific functions in the event systems are down and we need to still operate at some capacity. In the past few years, the DR/BCP plan for Advia has evolved. Advia used to rely on our third party vendor to provide a backup for our core platform. Now with our growth throughout the past few years, we have moved to having our own redundant system running in a different region. Advia has gone through the entire exercise of prioritizing processes, creating the plan and documenting the procedures for critical features, all the way down to the daily process. Advia also holds quarter tests of different parts of the plan. An example of my organization’s BCP is offline processing of teller transactions. In the event the core platform is down tellers have written steps on how to perform the transaction in an offline mode. There are even steps on what to do for balancing and what to do once the system comes back on line to complete the transactions and to