Disaster recovery planning - management
The planning phase is crucial to the success of any disaster recovery (DR) initiative. This topic section provides administrators with up-to-date news and how-to information about the personnel, staffing, training and documentation needs related to DR. In addition, this section discusses the best practices for mitigating risks, analyzing potential business impacts, personnel issues, documentation, change control and performing RTO and RPO assessments.
Top Stories
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Tip
27 Jan 2022
Critical event management software simplifies disaster recovery
Critical event management software can help reduce the chaos of disaster response, without overloading disaster recovery teams with data or complicating communications. Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2022
Backblaze now a target for Kasten Kubernetes backups
Kasten by Veeam can now use Backblaze's cloud storage as a backup target for Kubernetes data, a need that will continue to grow in popularity. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Dec 2010
Top 10 IT disaster recovery tips of 2010
To help alleviate the problems that often arise with disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing, we've compiled our top 10 DR tips from 2010. Learn about cloud disaster recovery, DR maturity levels and more. Continue Reading
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Answer
06 Dec 2010
Maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPOD) vs. RTO and RPO
Learn what maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPOD) means for disaster recovery planners vs. the terms RTO and RPO. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
24 Aug 2010
Virtualization disaster recovery planning tutorial
Virtualization disaster recovery (DR) differs from physical server DR in many ways. Learn the different technologies for virtual server backup and recovery, including VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and how VMware environments differ from Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer environments. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 Jun 2010
Selecting a managed business continuity service provider
In this tip, determine whether or not you need a managed BC service provider for BC/DR planning purposes and the steps to take to get the best results. Continue Reading
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Answer
02 Jun 2010
What is a business impact analysis questionnaire and what types of questions should be included?
Harvey Betan explains that a BIA questionnaire is used to gather valuable and important data about a company, the industry and other background information in this expert response. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
24 Feb 2010
Local area network disaster recovery tutorial: Redundant power systems and planning key for LAN DR
Avoid or mitigate common local area network (LAN) disasters by identifying likely failure points, building redundant systems, and stocking replacement equipment. Here's what you need in a LAN disaster recovery plan. Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2010
The importance of WAN optimization technology in disaster recovery programs
Listen to this podcast to find out the benefits of WAN optimization, how WAN optimization can help with DR and the future of WAN optimization in DR. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Jan 2010
Using data deduplication products as part of an IT disaster recovery strategy
Data deduplication has gained a lot of traction in the data backup and recovery world over the past few years. When integrating data deduplication products into your IT disaster recovery strategy, there are a number of things you need to consider. Should you use source dedupe or target dedupe? Which one is better for disaster recovery? If you are backing up your data to tape and disk, are there other issues to keep in mind? W. Curtis Preston, independent backup expert and executive editor, discusses source and target deduplication, how these approaches differ, what that means from a disaster recovery perspective and more in this Q&A. Continue Reading
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Answer
02 Nov 2009
What's the difference between a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan?
Kevin Beaver describes the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity planning in this ask the expert response. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Apr 2009
Risk management for disaster recovery planning
Disaster recovery (DR) planning is typically driven by risk management. This tip focuses on mitigating some of the risks associated with data and storage. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Mar 2009
Including employees in your disaster recovery plan
To really ensure business continuity, organizations need to protect and support employees while continuing to manage the business. This tip examines key issues that are affecting employees in business continuity and disaster recovery situations. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
05 Mar 2009
Business continuity and disaster recovery outsourcing tutorial
Outsourcing disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) services can save you money and increase productivity. Learn about vendors in the DR/BC space and how to choose the best one for your enterprise. Continue Reading
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News
30 Mar 2006
Chapter 1 -- DR planning and design
It's easy to see the potential devastation involved in data loss. The first chapter of this guide starts off with sound DR planning, strategy and product advice. Continue Reading