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recovering from
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Disaster Recovery
A disaster recovery plan must be implemented at the highest level in the
company.
The first step in developing a disaster recovery plan should be obtaining the
support of senior management and setting up a planning committee.
The design of the disaster recovery plan should include three major
components. They are:
Assess the company’s critical needs.
List priorities for recovery.
Establish recovery strategies and procedures.
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Disaster Recovery
A complete set of recovery strategies should take into account the
following:
Emergency response center
Escalation procedures
Alternate processing arrangements
Personnel relocation and replacements plans
Salvage plan
Plan for testing and maintaining the system
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
The goals of a disaster
recovery plan include: Mitigation
Minimize disruption, Recovery and
damage, and loss from a Prevention
disaster.
Provide a temporary Disaster Recovery
method for processing Planning
business and accounting
transactions.
Resume normal operations Response Preparedness
quickly.
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Recovering from disaster
• Consider obtaining
external expertise:
“White Hat” Hackers
• Balance expected costs
of disruption with
expected costs of
recovery;
• Be prepared for a
significant expenditure.
• Make everyone aware
of non‐technical threats
to security.
Dealing with disaster
Failover
Provides a secondary system to take over the duties of one that becomes
unavailable.
Disaster Recover Plan
Detailed process regaining data and making the system operationally available
again
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Backup Facilities
Reciprocal agreements between organizations can be used to provide
backup services.
Internal sites can be used by large organizations with multiple locations.
A hot site is a commercial disaster recovery service that can be leased by an
enterprise to provide IT services in the event of a disaster, fully operational
in a few hours.
A warm site is a commercial disaster recovery service that is only partially
configured with some equipment and may take a few days to be
operational.
A cold site is a commercial disaster recovery service providing air
conditioning, wiring, and plumbing, but no IT equipment, taking several
days to be operational.
Backup Methods
Accounting data backups are critical
and should be scheduled on a
regular basis.
The “Grandfather‐Father‐Son” or
GFS method involves making
multiple backups, one each day, for
example:
Grandfather: FULL backup
Father: Another full backup,
made more regularly to faster
storage
Son: Incremental backup (or
differential backup), usually to
the same storage as “father”
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