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When disaster strikes, engineering teams are dispatched to repair the damage, while PR teams work overtime to restore customer confidence. It’s a time-consuming and often expensive effort. No matter what the cause of the disaster, the organizations that manage them most effectively, and with the least amount of collateral damage, are those with a comprehensive, easyto-follow, and regularly tested disaster recovery (DR) plan. Whether you already have a DR plan or you are just beginning the process of creating one for your organization, this Definitive Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist will help you ensure you’ve included all the crucial components in your plan.  \n\\#1: Determine Recovery Objectives (RTO and RPO)  \nThe maingoal of DR is to keep your business operating as usual, all the time. This means you need to determine which workloads are the most mission-critical to your organization, and what Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is required for these workloads. RTO is the amount of time required to recover from a disaster after notification of business disruption. A reliable DR plan must contain a clearlystated allowable RTO. If your business cannot withstand an hour of downtime without losing customers to competitors or paying penalty fees due to service-level agreements (SLAs), it’s mission-critical to your business to be operational before an hour has expired. In this case, your RTO would be one hour. RPO is the window of time that data loss is tolerable. If your business can only survive four hours of data loss and you perform nightly backups, you would have a catastrophic loss of important data if disaster strikes the afternoon after a full backup. In this case, your RPO would be four hours. A company’s RTO and RPO will affect its DR strategy as well as  \nassociated expenses. While a simple file-level backup system might be sufficient for some applications, your mission-critical applications will likely need a DR technology based on realtime continuous data replication, to enable you to achieve near-zero RPO and RTO.  \n\\#2: Identify Stakeholders  \nThe next step is to identify all those who need to be updated once disaster strikes. In addition to those involved with performing the actual recovery from a disaster (e.g., engineers, support, executives), you should also pinpoint members of your PR and marketing team, vendors, third-party suppliers, and even key customers. Many companies keep a register of stakeholders, a good starting point for identifying all of the stakeholders you’ll want to notify if there is a disaster.  \n\\#3: Establish Communication Channels  \nOrganizations should keep a list of all teams responsible for DR, along with their roles and contact information. Establish a complete chain of command, including relevant executive leadership and accountable individuals from each of the engineering teams (e.g., network, systems, database, and storage) . Assign a designated contact person from the support team as well. You should also set up dedicated communication channels and hubs, such as an on-site room where everyone will gather or an online information-sharing tool to use for instant messaging.  \n\\#4: Collect All Infrastructure Documentation  \nAlthough your engineering teams that are dispatched to activate DR procedures possess the required skills and knowledge for shifting operations to your target DR site, infrastructure  \n\n| 1 | ©2019 CloudEndure Ltd. All Rights Reserved | [www.cloudendure.com](www.cloudendure.com) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\ndocumentation is still a must, especially with of the pressure that comes with a disaster. Even the most highly trained engineers prefer to follow infrastructure documentation line by line and command by command during a disaster. The documentation should list all of your mapped netwo","cbCaisswcL2oAbXT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisswcL2oAbXT","pdf",2437764,"English","# Determine Recovery Objectives (RTO and RPO)\n# Identify Stakeholders\n# Establish Communication Channels\n# Collect All Infrastructure Documentation\n# Choose the Right Technology\n# Define Incident Response Procedure","[{\"question\":\"What are RTO and RPO, and why do they matter in a DR plan?\",\"answer\":\"RTO is the maximum time allowed to recover after disruption, while RPO is the maximum tolerable data-loss window. Defining both drives the DR strategy and associated costs by matching recovery capabilities to business requirements.\"},{\"question\":\"Who should be included as stakeholders when building a disaster recovery plan?\",\"answer\":\"Beyond engineers and executives, organizations should include PR and marketing teams, vendors and third-party suppliers, and key customers. 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