A diaster can prove to be crippling for your company if you are not prepared. Follow these steps to properly install a data disaster recovery plan in case of any point of failure.

1. Creating a Company Data
Disaster Recovery Plan

2. Disaster Recovery Plans are Critical
• Disaster recovery plans are
like insurance: you don’t
think about needing it until
it’s too late
• A disaster can prove to be
crippling to your company if
you are not prepared
• Disasters include: natural
disaster, cyber attack,
hardware failure, mass
deletion, etc.

3. Recovery Plan Objective
• Primary objective of a recovery plan is:
– Being able to continue with your technology
infrastructure that is critical to organizational
operations after a natural or human-induced
disaster occurs
• Does your company have a disaster recovery
plan? If not, follow the proceeding tips

4. Disaster Recovery Planning
1. Have top management approval and
commitment. Without them, the plan won’t go
far
1. Establish a planning committee in charge of
creating the actual plan details
1. Perform a risk assessment that analyzes a range
of potential disasters including natural, technical
and human threats

5. Disaster Recovery Planning
4. Establish priorities. Decide which organizational
departments and types of functions or data will
have the most importance
5. Establish recovery services. Determine how
hardware, software, communications, files,
services, operations, etc. will be backed up and
recovered after a disaster
– Backupify provides both a social media and
Google Apps backup plan

6. Disaster Recovery Planning
6. Identify data that will need to be protected
and recovered
– Includes telephone numbers, inventory statistics,
call lists, insurance policies, vendor lists, etc.
7. Create the written plan outlining what data
needs to be accounted for and how it will be
recovered

7. Disaster Recovery Planning
8. Test the plan to ensure it will succeed in any
situation
– It is best to prepare and test BEFORE a disaster
occurs, to ensure it rolls out properly
– In the case of a real disaster, you can rest assured
that your plan is thorough and effective
9. Approve and agree upon the plan

8. There’s More…
• Disaster recovery planning requires more than
just backing up data and having off-site storage
– Involves all employees, pieces of data, functions of the
company and testing of the plan