5.a- Developing Recovery Plans Flashcards
Why developing recovery plans
These are the process and procedure documents that will be triggered when a disaster has been declared.
component of disaster recovery plan
- Disaster declaration procedure
- Roles and responsibilities
- Emergency contact lists
- System recovery procedures
- System operation procedures
- System restoration procedures
Business continuity and disaster recovery plan
They work together to get critical business functions operating again after a disaster.
Data backup and recovery
Testing backups is important; testing recoverability is critical.
E-vaulting
Permits organizations to back up their systems and data to an off-site location, which could be a storage system in another data center or a third party service provider.
Objectives accomplished by E-vaulting
- Reliable backup
* Off-site storage of backup data
Backup schemes
- Full backup - complete copy of data set.
- Incremental backup - a copy of all data that has changed since the last full or incremental backup.
- Differential backup - A copy of all data that has changed since the last full backup.
What backup scheme is recommended by a more rapid recovery is the requirement
differential backups.
Testing of Disaster response plans
- Document review
- Walkthrough
- Simulation
- Parallel test
- Cutover test