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Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster Recovery Plan Template
Business Continuity
ISO27001, ISO27002, Sarbanes - Oxley, PCI, and HIPAA Compliant

 

This Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) can be used as a Disaster Planning template for any enterprise. The Disaster Recovery template and supporting material have been updated to be ISO 27000, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA compliant.  The Disaster Planning Template comes as a Word document and includes:

  • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template

  • Business and IT Impact Analysis Questionnaire

  • Work Plan

New with this version are:

  • Web Site Disaster Recovery Planning Form

  • Department Disaster Recovery Activation Workbook

    • Quick Reference Guide

    • Team Alert List (Form)

    • DRP Team Responsibilities

    • DRP Team Checklist

    • Critical Function(s) Definition

    • Normal Business Hour Response Procedures

    • After Hours Response Procedures

    • DRP Location(s) Definition

    • DRP Recovery Procedures

    • Notification Procedures

    • Notification Call List (Form)

  • Vendor Disaster Recovery Questionnaire

  • Vendor Phone List Form Updated

  • Key Customer Notification Form

  • Critical Resources to be Retrieved Form

  • Business Continuity Off-Site Materials Form

Included in the template is Business Impact Questionnaire as well as a full Job Description for the Disaster Recovery Manager.  The premium edition contains 14 full job descriptions.

Clients can also subscribe to Janco's DRP update service and receive all updates to the DRP Template for 18 months* from the date of purchase. 

The DRP template is over 200 pages and includes everything needed to customize the Disaster Recovery Plan to fit your specific requirement.  The electronic document includes proven written text and examples for the following major sections of a disaster recovery plan:

  • Plan Introduction

  • Business Impact Analysis - including a sample impact matrix

  • DRP Organization Responsibilities pre and post disaster - drp checklist

  • Backup Strategy for Data Centers, Departmental File Servers, Wireless Network servers, Data at Outsourced Sites, Desktops (In office and "at home"), Laptops and PDA's.

  • Recovery Strategy including approach, escalation plan process and decision points

  • Disaster Recovery Procedures in a check list format

  • Plan Administration Process

  • Technical Appendix including definition of necessary phone numbers and contact points

  • Job Description for Disaster Recovery Manager (3 pages long) - entire disaster recovery team job descriptions are available.

  • Work Plan to modify and implement the template.  Included is a list of deliverables for each task.

There is a extensive section that show how a full test of the DRP can be conducted.  It includes

  • Disaster Recovery Manager Responsibilities

  • Distribution of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Maintenance of the Business Impact Analysis

  • Training of the Disaster Recovery Team

  • Testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Evaluation of the Disaster Recovery Plan Tests

  • Maintenance of the Disaster Recovery Plan

Testimonial - Dave Baker - City of Hamilton - I have found the DRP template invaluable!

Testimonial - Bob Rifenbury -MCSE/CCNA Lauch Testing Lab - The DRP Template saved me about 6 months of work!

Testimonial -  Kelly Keeler - Martin's Point Health Care - I have received and I began using the template immediately. IT IS GREAT! Made this process a snap for me. Cut my documentation time down from.  weeks to hours! This document has made, what began to be an overwhelming process turn into a snap!

Testimonial - Juan Stamos - Mexico City Corporation - We had a DRP in place, but needed a more user friendly structure.  The Disaster Recovery Template (Gold edition) has that structure.  It was very easy to quickly move our DRP into Janco's DRP Template -- a real added value.

 



* Update service is for 12 months unless it is purchased within 30 days of the purchase of the Template.  Janco reserves the right to validate purchase of the customer was made for the template.

 

This template is not for resale or re-distribution - Disaster Recovery Planning Template Disaster Recovery Template


 

 

 

Disaster Recovery News

08/28/2008
Flood concerns man slams 'disaster' plans (Forres Gazette) A FORRES man, who has objected to the planning application for the River Findhorn and Pilmuir Flood Alleviation Scheme, says he is not satisfied with the responses given by Moray Council to his objections.

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08/27/2008
Disaster prep group forms leadership and plans (Redlands Daily Facts) REDLANDS - The East Valley COAD, Community Organizations Active in Disaster, met Tuesday morning at the Boy Scouts of America Redlands office to elect leadership and discuss the next steps in building the organization.

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08/27/2008
The Trouble With Virtual Disaster Recovery (Enterprise Storage Forum) As enterprises virtualize their data centers to cut costs and consolidate their servers, they may be setting themselves up for big trouble. According to the latest disaster recovery research report from Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), based on surveys of 1,000 IT managers in large organizations worldwide, 35 percent of an organization's virtual servers are not included in its disaster recovery (DR) ...

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08/27/2008
Pocket disaster guides on sale (Queens Courier) September is National Preparedness Month, and Informed Publishing, the nation’s leading publisher of critical planning and response tools, is drawing attention to two of its guidebooks, encouraging Americans to take the first simple step to prepare for emergencies in their home and communities.

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08/27/2008
EchoStream for AIX Providing Essential Disaster Recovery Capabilities (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Vision Solutions, the leading high availability and disaster recovery solutions provider in IBM Power Systems markets (NYSE: IBM), today announced further expansion of its innovative AIX data replication and continuous data protection technologies.

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08/27/2008
Virtualization Driving Organizations to Reevaluate Disaster Recovery Plans (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Symantec Corp. today announced the global results of its fourth annual IT Disaster Recovery survey, which demonstrates a significant decline in executive involvement in disaster recovery planning and a significant increase in the number of organizations reevaluating their disaster recovery plans due to virtualization.

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08/27/2008
Exec non-involvement in disaster recovery a "sign of complacency" (ITBusiness.ca) While companies in Canada and around the world are taking disaster recovery (DR) more seriously, that's happening without the supervision of senior executives to help guide DR plans, a new report reveals.

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08/26/2008
Virtualization and Mission-Critical Apps Drive Enterprise Disaster Recovery Plans - Infrastructure (Baseline) The Disaster Recovery Research study surveyed 1,000 IT managers from large organizations in 14 countries.

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08/26/2008
Disaster Recovery and Continuity Planning for the Database Administrator - Part 2 (IT Management) Obviously, database administrators are critical to the success of any disaster recovery scenario. There are many key roles that are critical to the success of the database administrator. A server administrator will have to install and set up the server.

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08/26/2008
SBA emphasizes disaster-planning assistance (Business Journal of Tampa Bay) As part of the fifth annual National Preparedness Month, the U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding its constituency of the necessity of having an emergency plan in place to respond to a natural or man-made disaster.

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