Disaster recovery involves preparing technology infrastructure to continue operations after a disruption. It grew from protecting mainframes in the 1970s to today's emphasis on always-available IT systems critical to business. Disaster recovery planning considers both natural events like floods or earthquakes and human-caused issues. While requiring time and money, disaster recovery is important because data loss or downtime can significantly harm a business through lost customers and reputation. Effective disaster recovery identifies backup sites, data protection, training drills, and key personnel coverage to minimize business impacts from disasters.

1. Disaster Recovery
Presented by
Jasmine Mawii

2. What is Disaster Recovery?
• The process, policies and procedures that are
related to preparing for recovery or
continuation of technology infrastructure.
(wiki)

3. History
• 1970S : Disaster recovery concept,
Batch-oriented mainframe down

4. History cont….
• 1978s : First back up computer centers,
Sun information system,
First US commercial Hot site vendor,
Philadelphia

5. History Cont……
• 2000s : Increased dependency on IT

6. Causal Factors
• Natural Disaster
• Man Made Disaster

7. Natural Disaster
• Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes or earthquakes

8. Man Made Disaster
• material spills, infrastructure failure, or bio-
terrorism

9. Importance of DR

10. Importance
• IT systems have become increasingly critical
to the smooth operation of a company

11. It is IMPORTANT!
• A disaster-recovery plan is like insurance. You
might not feel like it’s giving you much
benefit—until you need it !!!.

12. Very Important!
• IF you don’t have DR,
Data loss and server downtime,
Delaying Operation of a business,
Disappointing Customers,
Bad Reputation.

13. Important !
• Therefore, the associated COST is too Big!

14. Important!
• Disaster-recovery planning can
minimize—or
even eliminate—
business disruption.
It is cost effective!

15. Challenges in DR plan
•Time
AND
COST

16. Challenge in DR
• REPLICATION
replicating the production network at the
DR site including IP address mapping, firewall
rules & VLAN configuration.

17. Questions in Creating an IT DR Plan
• What is our budget?
• How much should we invest?
• How much redundancy should we buy?
• What are our IT priorities?
• Where will your disaster recovery servers
physically be?
• How quickly do you need to recover?

18. Strategies
• Site designation
• Data backup
• Drills
• Back up of key personnel

19. Site designation
A location that an organization can move to
after a disaster if the current facility is unusable.
3 types :
• Hot site ( capable to resume fully)
• Cold Site ( Not capable to resume)
• Warm ( Capable to resume some)

20. Data backup
• Central to any disaster recovery plan
The processes in question,
analyzing and researching the
backup equipment used,
conducting computer-assisted
audit techniques and tests,
examining of paper and paperless
records. (wiki)

21. Drills
• Makes sure the effectiveness of the plan
• Determines what change is needed when

22. Back up of key personnel
• A written policies and specific communication
with employees to ensure that both regular
and replacement personnel is selected,
documented, and informed should a disaster
occurred.

23. Other considerations…
• Insurance issues
• Communication issues
• Emergency procedures
• Environmental issues