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Disaster Recovery

Principles of disaster planning have been at issue in public discourse for some years. Experts have identified phases of disaster, which refers to prescriptive activities that are meant to assist institutions in taking control of the process of planning against disaster and responding to it should a catastrophe occur. Four phases cycle into one another: preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation (Auf der Heide, 2000). Of these four phases, only response is engaged in an actual disastrous event at the time of occurrence. Even so, the other three phases are meant to diminish the severity of response and the impact of the occurrence.

Response, as the term implies, refers to the engagement of emergency intervention and rescue personnel. In the case of XYZ that would refer to the process of salvaging the damaged physical assets and preparing them for the next phase: recovery. A data-recovery enterprise may or may not be able to reclaim payroll and e-mail data, although of course that is desirable. From recovery the next phase in the cycle is mitigation, which refers to affirmatively overcoming the weaknesses of the existing infrastructure that enabled the data to be lost in the first place. That then cycles into preparedness, which, like mitigation, occurs outside the scope of a crisis situation. It takes in the idea of continuously maintaining and protecting assets against harm, organizing and devoting resources to planning for the possibility of a future response.

The cycle may seem self-evident and unnecessary to iterate, but there is a difference between understanding and acting on common sense, and if no disaster is in view at the moment, organizations may be reluctant to devote resources to planning ahead against disaster. Yet anticipation is key.

All of this underpins the creation of a disaster plan for XYZ Computers. XYZ appears to have assumed that backing up payroll data on tapes is sufficie...

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