What does disaster recovery planning actually mean?
Disaster recovery planning encompasses a set of policies, processes and technologies that insure a business’s viability in case of disaster. When a disaster occurs, the disaster recovery plan’s aim is to restore an acceptable level of operations within an acceptable time period. The key parts of that definition are “acceptable level of operations” and “acceptable time period.” The overarching goal of disaster recovery is to save your business time and money. To that end, spending large amounts to backup and recover every piece of data instantly isn’t necessary if every piece isn’t a business critical component. Setting the appropriate level of operations and time period to limit business damage can be a smart way to decrease the expense of backup and recovery by a considerable amount.
