Disaster Recovery

A disaster recovery plan (DRP) — often referred to synonymously as a business continuity plan (BCP) — is a comprehensive set of measures and procedures put into place within an organisation to ensure that essential, mission critical resources and infrastructures are maintained or backed up by alternatives during various stages of a disaster.

A DRP is an insurance policy. It enables an organisation to respond efficiently to potential threats that may render all or parts of its operations and resources unavailable.

DRP protect an organisation in many ways:

• Provides a greater sense of security
• Ensures a certain level of system and resource stability during a disaster
• Minimises system downtime and recovery time
• Minimises the risk of permanent loss of core assets or the entire organisation
• Minimises confusion during a disaster
• Minimises the amount of decision-making during a high-stress time when emotions will be running high
• Ensures the reliability of secondary systems such as hot sites and server mirrors