Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

Welcome to the Information Technology Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning resource pages. On these pages, you will find resources for all of your planning needs along with resources to other disaster recovery and business continuity information.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Planning is the practice of planning ahead for a disastrous event to determine how you will recover from an event. The objective of a plan is to determine what you will do to recover your services if you lose your primary location. Making decisions ahead of time, while people are calm, can save many hours and many frustrations under stressful times during an actual event.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Planning is the practice of planning how you will run your service or business unit processes when normal operating procedures are not possible. If you do not have access to computers, how will you continue processing your business information? In addition, once computers are restored, how will you bring the system to a current status?

The first step in creating a solid Business Continuity Plan for any service would be to define all of the business processes and their dependencies on system and human resources. A general guide is available to assist you with the questions that need to be answered to better prepare you for an IT disaster or a localized incident in your workspace.

All University departments should develop a Business Continuity Plan for their business processes. In addition, a Disaster Recovery Plan for internal applications and workstations in your department should also be completed.

More Information

For questions regarding assistance with planning efforts, please contact the disaster recovery planning team.