IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies

Foreword xix

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with Disaster Recovery 7

Chapter 1: Understanding Disaster Recovery 9

Chapter 2: Bootstrapping the DR Plan Effort 29

Chapter 3: Developing and Using a Business Impact Analysis 51

Part II: Building Technology Recovery Plans 75

Chapter 4: Mapping Business Functions to Infrastructure 77

Chapter 5: Planning User Recovery 97

Chapter 6: Planning Facilities Protection and Recovery129

Chapter 7: Planning System and Network Recovery 153

Chapter 8: Planning Data Recovery 173

Chapter 9: Writing the Disaster Recovery Plan 197

Part III: Managing Recovery Plans 215

Chapter 10: Testing the Recovery Plan 217

Chapter 11: Keeping DR Plans and Staff Current241

Chapter 12: Understanding the Role of Prevention 263

Chapter 13: Planning for Various Disaster Scenarios 285

Part IV: The Part of Tens 305

Chapter 14: Ten Disaster Recovery Planning Tools307

Chapter 15: Eleven Disaster Recovery Planning Web Sites 315

Chapter 16: Ten Essentials for Disaster Planning Success323

Chapter 17: Ten Benefits of DR Planning331

Index 33