Disaster Plan Recovery

Disaster recovery plan (DRP) is the method, measures and policies related to recovery or maintenance of technological infrastructure essential to an business if a natural or human-induced disaster were to happen; disaster recovery.

Disaster recovery planning (DRP) should include;

• planning for resumption of application disaster recovery,
• data disaster recovery,
• hardware disaster recovery,
• communications (such as networking) disaster recovery
• and other IT infrastructure disaster recovery.

A complement of disaster recovery plan (DRP) is known as, a business continuity plan (BCP), which also includes planning for non-IT related aspects such as;

• key personnel disaster recovery,
• Facilities disaster recovery,
• crisis communication in disaster recovery
• and reputation protection in disaster recovery.

This should transfer to the disaster recovery plan (DRP) for IT related infrastructure recovery and continuity.