Disaster Recovery Planning ^{2nd Ed.}

Disaster Recovery Planning, Second Edition shows exactly how to implement world-class disaster recovery for today's distributed environments — without paying for expensive consultants or proprietary methodologies! Veteran planner and analyst Jon William Toigo delivers strategies and insights that can be used by any company — large or small.

You'll find comprehensive coverage of disaster recovery techniques that reflect the latest technologies in data storage, networks, server systems, and the Internet:

• E-business and Web-based disaster planning and recovery
• Recovery strategies for n-tier client/server and ERP systems — the Achilles heel of modern corporate IT
• Low-cost steps you can take now to dramatically reduce the risks of disaster
• Guidelines for leveraging current and next generation IT and network technologies to ensure maximum protection for mission-critical business processes

Disaster Recovery Planning, Second Edition is linked to an accompanying Web site, www.drplanning.org, that will serve as a "living appendix" — keeping IT professionals up-to-date on disaster recovery for years to come!

• Foreword by Todd Gordon
• Foreword by George Ferguson
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• What Is Disaster Recovery Planning?
• Purpose of This Book
• A Working Definition of Disaster
• The Time Factor in Disaster Recovery
• The Need for Disaster Recovery Planning
• The Auditor's View
• An Imperfect Legal Mandate
• Building Management Consensus for Disaster Recovery Planning
• Who Should Write the Plan?
• A Straightforward, Project-Oriented Approach
• A Note on Methodology
• Endnotes
• Chapter 2: Analyzing the Risk
• The Purpose of Risk Analysis
• Identifying and Prioritizing Assets and Functions
• Collecting Input from End Users
• A Criticality Spectrum
• Collecting Data on Outage Costs
• Identifying Threats to Assets and Functions
• The Problem with Probability
• A Few Compelling Statistics
• Developing Plan Objectives
• Endnotes
• Chapter 3: Facility Protection
• Water Detection
• Fire Suppression
• Contamination Reduction
• Precombustion Detection
• Power Failure
• Physical Access Control
• Endnotes
• Chapter 4: Data Recovery Planning
• The Primacy of Data
• Planning for Data Recovery
• Identifying the Information Asset
• Classifying Criticality: Inputs and Outputs
• Setting a Policy on Data Asset Identification, Classification, and Backup
• Policy-based Management of Electronic Data via Software
• Performance Considerations in Backup Software Selection
• Planning for Backup or Restoral?
• Electronic Vaulting
• Remote Mirroring
• Mirroring Not a Panacea
• Options for Records Storage
• Selecting an Off-site Storage Vendor
• Cost-Justify Off-site Storage
• Implementing the Data Recovery Plan
• Final Observations About Data Recovery Planning
• Endnotes
• Chapter 5: Strategies for Centralized System Recovery
• Developing Centralized System Backup Strategies
• Cautions and Caveats
• Mainframe Backup Strategies
• Which Strategy Is Preferred?
• Selecting a Hot Site
• The Bottom Line on Centralized System Recovery
• Endnotes
• Chapter 6: Strategies for Decentralized System Recovery
• Distributed Client/Server Computing: The Achilles Heel
• A Brief Overview of Distributed Computing
• Contemporary Client/Server Applications
• Preventive Measures
• Proactive Measures
• Planning for Recovery
• Endnotes
• Chapter 7: Strategies for End User Recovery
• Developing an End User Recovery Strategy
• Options for End User Recovery
• Emerging Technology: Harnessing Remote Access Capabilities
• Types of Remote Access
• Considerations Regarding the Use of Remote Access for End User Recovery
• Other Issues in End User Recovery
• Supply Logistics
• Final Thoughts on End User Recovery Strategies
• Endnotes
• Chapter 8: Strategies for Networking Backup
• What Is Involved in Formulating a Network Recovery Strategy?
• Analyzing Networks: A Layered Approach
• Preliminary Activities in Network Recovery Planning
• Formulating Strategies for Internal Network Recovery
• Backup Strategies for the Local Loop and Wide Area Network Services
• Planning for the Restoral of Wide Area Voice and Data Network Links Following a User or Systems Relocation
• Endnotes
• Chapter 9: Emergency Decision Making
• Designating Teams
• Common Evacuation Project Functions and Teams
• Common Recovery Project Functions and Teams
• Relocation and Reentry Project Functions
• Staffing Teams
• Developing a Notification Directory
• Creating the Emergency Management Flowchart
• Emergency Response
• Situation Assessment
• Emergency Operations Center Activation
• The Recovery Phase
• The Relocation/Reentry Phase
• Final Thoughts on Emergency Management Decision Making
• Endnotes
• Chapter 10: The Recovery Management Improvement
• Researching Literature
• Interviews and Tours
• Professional DR Organizations
• Professional Associations
• Other Milieu Resources
• Endnotes
• Chapter 11: Plan Maintenance and Testing
• Team Education
• Plan Maintenance
• Change Management
• Testing to Maintain the Plan
• Managing the Results
• Chapter 12: Conclusion

A very good book. It got even better in the second edition.