IT Disaster Recovery Plan Template CONTENTS: Section 1: Determine Scope and Size of DR Plan Section 2: Definitions of Disaster Section 3: Framework Design/Hardware and Software Section 4: Framework Design/Environmental Section 5: Framework Design/Customers and Applications Section 6: Framework Design/Labor Resources Section 7: Framework Design/Networking Section 8: Framework Design/Cultural, Political, Financial Section 9: Administrative Processes Section 10: Logistical Processes Section 11: Testing Processes Section 12: Training Processes Section 13: Maintenance of plan Section 1 -- Scope and Size of Disaster Recovery Plan A. Over-arching considerations Campus issues and checks: Records management requirements by individual state Requirement for business continuity plan (Definition: Business continuity plan is a customer’s plan to delivery service while IT disaster “manually” recovery restores electronic service.) HIPAA requires a disaster recovery plan University is a and is a big loss to the student when “business” business is out of order. Do we need a business continuity plan for the students? Need to be practical and usable, not just theoretical Need to be understandable Can’t spend a lot of money B. Determine Scope and Size Agree upon level of scope Can a shop” person come in and understand the plan? “non-IT Is the plan practical? Do we outsource the plan? Need to share examples Need to consider in overarching Campus crisis plan Within this, need to include master data center recovery plan Within this, need to include respective customer and individual service plans, e.g., PeopleSoft services, Mainframe services, enterprise storage services, individual customers’ computers, etc. Section 2 -- Definitions of Disaster A. What are (and what are the criteria to determine a disaster? not) Physical, data, hardware How do we know if a disaster has been detected?
IT Disaster Recovery Plan Template CONTENTS: Section 1: Determine Scope and Size of DR Plan Section 2: Definitions of Disaster Section 3: Framework Design/Hardware and Software Section 4: Framework Design/Environmental Section 5: Framework Design/Customers and Applications Section 6: Framework Design/Labor Resources Section 7: Framework Design/Networking Section 8: Framework Design/Cultural, Political, Financial Section 9: Administrative Processes Section 10: Logistical Processes Section 11: Testing Processes Section 12: Training Processes Section 13: Maintenance of plan Section 1 -- Scope and Size of Disaster Recovery Plan A. Over-arching considerations Campus issues and checks: Records management requirements by individual state Requirement for business continuity plan (Definition: Business continuity plan is a customer’s plan to delivery service “manually” while IT disaster recovery restores electronic service.) HIPAA requires a disaster recovery plan University is a “business” and is a big loss to the student when business is out of order. Do we need a business continuity plan for the students? Need to be practical and usable, not just theoretical Need to be understandable Can’t spend a lot of money B. Determine Scope and Size Agree upon level of scope Can a “non-IT shop” person come in and understand the plan? Is the plan practical? Do we outsource the plan? Need to share examples Need to consider in overarching Campus crisis plan Within this, need to include master data center recovery plan Within this, need to include respective customer and individual service plans, e.g., PeopleSoft services, Mainframe services, enterprise storage services, individual customers’ computers, etc. Section 2 -- Definitions of Disaster A. What are (and what are not) the criteria to determine a disaster? Physical, data, hardware How do we know if a disaster has been detected?
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