Support Tools and Resources
A number of useful tools and resources have emerged to make the process of disaster recovery planning rather more straight forward and manageable.
The areas most appropriate to this site are in the creation of the DRP itself, and in the testing and mainteance sphere:
DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN TEMPLATE
The most common approach to creating a disaster recovery plan is to avoid re-inventing the wheel. The use of a template to ensure better productivity and accuracy is now well established.
The most widely recognized tool in this niche is The BCP Generator. This comprises two major elements: a template and a guide. The two elements interact with each other, the latter guiding you through the template to help you populate it.
The plan produced is very comprehensive, and the method used is broadly based upon the techniques discussed on this web site.
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DISASTER RECOVERY TEST AND AUDIT
This area is one in which many organizations take shortcuts - and some live to regret it. As discussed on previous pages, testing and audit is a fundamental part of sound and responsible planning.
The Disaster Recovery Toolkit is designed to assist in this area, and make the audit (desk test) itself less tedious. It provides a variety of checklists and questionnaires to help ensure that nothing is overlooked.
It is without doubt a very cost effective kick start to those seeking assurance in this most critical of areas.
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