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IT Disaster Recovery Plan Template

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Our editable Word IT Disaster Recovery Plan Template is a vital resource for any business that utilises computers and computer systems to complete day to day tasks. It gives you a guideline for what to do in an emergency where your systems or hardware malfunction or there is service disruption...

Our editable Word IT Disaster Recovery Plan Template is a vital resource for any business that utilises computers and computer systems to complete day to day tasks. It gives you a guideline for what to do in an emergency where your systems or hardware malfunction or there is service disruption from major event such as flood or fire.

Our template is fully completed with sample data, so you just need to customise to bring in your company name and any information that is relevant to you and your business. Our template will save you hours if not days of time and gives you the perfect baseline to build your IT Recovery Plan from.

WHAT IS AN IT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN?

An IT Disaster Recovery Plan involves a set of policies, tools and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.

The IT disaster recovery plan demonstrates your strategy to compensate for issues experienced, which will inadvertently cause disruption to your core business and clients. The disaster recovery strategy has been developed to ensure a fast and effective response to disruptions in service, and to ensure the quickest possible restoration of the service.

WHY DO I NEED AN IT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN?

When there is an emergency or disaster that affects your operations, you will understand how quickly clients and customers are affected, and how serious this can be to your business reputation.

You may be a small business. but even then, what few clients you have are precious. By having this plan in place it will help you to actively get back to providing your services or products as quickly as possible, reducing financial loss and clients going elsewhere.

Aside from being useful to maintain your business operations if you are ever tendering for a government or large contract, or applying for grant funding - they may require this document to verify a business interruption will not delay the project / service provision. This IT recovery plan template has been approved as part of previous submissions for government service provision contracts.

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS IT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN?

Our IT Disaster Recovery Plan Template goes through all the important details needed to ensure your company can get through a serious event that may affect your business operations.

Topics include:

* Major Goals

* Disaster Recovery Team

* Application & Software Inventory Profile

* Hardware Inventory Profile

* Services Profile

* Information Services Backup Procedures

* Disaster Recovery Procedures

* Initiating the Disaster Recovery Strategy

* Communication During the Disaster

* Testing the Disaster Recovery Strategy

* Vendor Contact Details

The Docushop IT Disastery Recovery plan template has sample content from a real plan that has been implemented in several of our clients businesses. The IT recovery plan content will help you understand what types of incidents that may occur that will affect your business, and ways of combatting those if they occur. You can then edit, add to or delete any of the sample content to be relevant to your business.


WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF HAVING AN IT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN?

The key benefits from having an IT Disaster Recovery Plan in place are:

  • Cost-Efficiency - the plan covers many considerations to ensure you get back on your feet quickly
  • Limited losses - an unforeseen event can cause revenue reduction and other costs, planning for these will limit your exposure
  • Defined Processes = Quick Action
  • Safeguard Business Operations - put a plan in place to ensure critical operations can still occur after an emergency or diaster

    WHAT INDUSTRIES NEED AN IT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN?

    Any company that relies on computers, other hardware (like phones, ipads, scanners etc) and related software should have a disaser recovery plan in place. Even small businesses, no matter how small can benefit from knowing how to protect their business during a disaster.

    The types of industries that have used this plan include:

    • Administration IT Disaster Recovery Plan
    • Trades IT Disaster Recovery Plan
    • Tech Startup IT Disaster Recovery Plan
    • Manufacturing IT Disaster Recovery Plan
    • Retailer IT Disaster Recovery Plan
    • Transport IT Disaster Recovery Plan
    • Tourism IT Disaster Recovery Plan

      WHAT HAPPENS IF I DON'T HAVE AN IT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN?

      Well, you'll only need one if some sort of disaster happens that means you business can't operate as usual. So if nothing happens, well I guess you don't need one. But look at local recent disasters, the floods in Brisbane and Northern Rivers of NSW. The fires that WA get every year. What happens if a car crashes into the side of your business and knocks out your power for a week? If you know exactly what you'd do to keep operating right now, and can could that plan happening and clearly communicated to your staff and customers - maybe you also don't need one.

      But during times of disaster what usually happens is people panic, all your good intentions go out the window when really you need calm and systems in place to guide everyone to the best result.

      A simple document like this, housed in a place that any of your staff can get access to will definitely help you get back on your feet sooner, and give everyone peace of mind.

      HOW TO USE THIS IT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN?

      The template is an editable IT Disaster Recovery Plan word document and is ready to download and edit immediately.

      Once purchased, wait a few moments while it creates your download, and you can then download when the ‘DOWNLOADS READY’ box appears. You will also receive an email with the downloads so you can access them later.

      Customise the template with your business name and logo. You can also change the theme template to update the colour profile to match your corporate colours. 

      Read through every section and customise to your business. If something is not relevant, simply delete it. And of course, you can add any additional sections as you require.

      Format: WORD

      Pages: 12

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