Business continuity focuses on keeping business operational during a disaster, while disaster recovery focuses on restoring data access and IT infrastructure after a disaster.
Steps involved in creating a disaster recovery plan:
- Creating a DR response team;
- Identifying critical operations and setting goals;
- Evaluating potential disaster scenarios;
- Creating a communication plan;
- Establishing roles and responsibilities;
- Developing a data backup and recovery plan;
- Testing your plan.
Determining the business impact of a function or process first, and then develop recovery capability for it. Your objective in this phase is to identify the people, facilities, and assets that are required to achieve the four “R’s” which are: Response, Resumption, Recovery, and Restoration.
