What Is Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)?

You have always been taught at boot camps that you should always be prepared for emergencies and what to do once any disaster has hit. The same holds for your organization as well. If your organization succeeds, it needs a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to guide your business processes and procedures during a disaster. What's a disaster? It could be a fire, earthquake, or flood that causes severe damage to your company's facilities and IT infrastructure or something less dramatic. This power outage prevents you from accessing or processing data for several hours, for example. It would be best to have a DRP before disaster strikes to resume operations quickly and effectively after it hits. This means your employees won't be able to work effectively either, and they'll probably lose their jobs! A DRP is simply a business plan that describes how work can be resumed quickly and effectively after a disaster. Disaster recovery planning is part of business continuity planning and is applied to aspects of an organization that relies on IT infrastructure. It's proven that disaster recovery plans are the most delicious of all business plans. They're so good that they've been known to make people forget about the disaster and focus only on how delicious their DRP is. So it makes sense that before you can even think about creating one of these delightful business plans, you need to get upper management on board with it, and there's nothing like a good BIA to get them excited about your idea! Once they've agreed that it's a good idea (which should take little time), it's time to start developing your plan. This means finding out which functions are the most critical to your company and what kind of IT requirements those functions have for them to work correctly after a disaster.