What Is a Disaster Response Team?

Today, regardless of the size of the organization, security issues and disaster recovery capabilities have become the top issues for organization management. This book delves into the entire process of developing and implementing a disaster recovery plan.

System Disaster Recovery: Principles and Practice

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Daily headlines are full of reports of hurricanes, tsunamis, wars and power failures. Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, when the disaster comes, is the company or organization prepared to deal with the disaster and successfully overcome it?

This book will comprehensively introduce the entire process of developing and implementing a disaster recovery plan. It mainly covers the following aspects:

Form a recovery team and assign tasks to everyone and establish a notification mechanism

Assess risks and prioritize based on their potential impact on the business

Prioritize the organization's business and assets so that they can be restored in a systematic manner during the restoration process

Data backup and storage solutions for fast and effective data recovery

Develop appropriate service level agreements and establish a solid organizational structure so that they can be quickly restored and re-run

How to implement a disaster recovery plan, including testing its effectiveness and preparing for implementation in an emergency

Continuous assessment of needs, threats, and solutions

AprilWells has many years of experience in the IT field, from programmers, system analysts to database administrators. April has been a lecturer assistant at local universities for many years. As a trusted member of the organization, April is a key figure in many disaster recovery teams and has accumulated many valuable successes and failures in the process of implementing disaster recovery.

April holds Oracle 8, 8i, and 9i expert certifications, graduated in information science from the University of Pittsburgh, and earned a master's degree from West Texas A & M University in Texas. April has been a speaker at Oracle special sessions and specialized disaster recovery planning meetings. April has also written a lot about Oracle database and grid database design and grid applications.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Disaster Recovery

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Why do you need disaster recovery

1.3 What is a disaster

1.4 Types of disaster

1.5 What is the potential impact of a disaster

1.6 What is a business continuity plan

1.7 summary

1.8 Skill Quiz

1.9 Exercises

1.10 items

Chapter 2 Preparing for a Disaster Recovery Plan

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Why make a plan

2.3 Building a team

2.4 Obtaining Management Support

2.5 Need for ongoing departmental support

2.6 Team members

2.7 Disaster Recovery Unit

2.8 Features of team members

2.9 External team members

2.10 How to create an address book

2.11 Safely Available Preparatory Resources

2.12 Team tasks

2.13 Summary

2.14 Skill Quiz

2.15 Exercises

2.16 items

Chapter 3 Assessing Risks and Impacts

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Definition of risk

3.3 Choosing an Evaluation Method

3.4 Best Response to Specific Threats

3.5 Set priority based on time range

3.6 Disaster-based risk assessment

3.7 Asset-based risk assessment

3.8 Business Impact Analysis

3.9 OCTAVE risk assessment

3.10 Summary

3.11 Skill Quiz

3.12 Exercises

3.13 items

Chapter 4 Prioritizing Systems and Features That Need Recovery

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Identifying and prioritizing assets and functions

4.3 Prioritizing Disaster Recovery Plans

4.4 Determine what to restore and when

4.5 Dependency Analysis

4.6 Defining Critical Criteria for Disaster Declaration

4.7 Summary

4.8 Skill Quiz

4.9 Exercises

4.10 items

Chapter 5 Establishing a Data Storage and Recovery Site

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Data preparation

5.3 Information is also an asset

5.4 Recovery Site Selection

5.5 Criteria for Site Selection

5.6 Develop a Recovery Solution

5.7 Summary

5.8 Skill Quiz

5.9 Exercises

5.10 items

Chapter 6 Planning Process and Relationship Management

6.1 Introduction

6.2 What kind of documentation is needed

6.3 Collecting contact information

6.4 Evaluation Support Kit

6.5 Emergency operation center

6.6 Create backup

6.7 Develop a recovery plan

6.8 Relationship with the previous family

6.9 Relationship with the next family

6.10 Summary

6.11 Skill Quiz

6.12 Exercises

6.13 Project

Chapter 7 Develop Workflows in Special Environments

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Urgent needs in emergencies

7.3 Identifying the shortcomings of the recovery plan

7.4 Identifying the risks of disaster recovery

7.5 summary

7.6 Skill Quiz

7.7 Exercises

7.8 items

Chapter 8 Testing the Disaster Recovery Plan

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Walkthrough disaster recovery plan

8.3 Use change control: reasons and methods

8.4 Management and documentation of recovery work

8.5 summary

8.6 Skill Quiz

8.7 Exercises

8.8 items

Chapter 9 Ongoing Assessment of Demand Threats and Solutions

9.1 Introduction

9.2 What to do after a disaster recovery test

9.3 Threat identification in the system

9.4 Determination of the solution

9.5 summary

9.6 Skill Quiz

9.7 Exercises

9.8 items

Appendix A Sample Disaster Recovery Plan

Appendix B Catalog Test Sample Document

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