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Business continuity is a process that helps manage risks to the smooth running of an organisation or delivery of a service, ensuring continuity of critical functions in the event of a disruption, and effective recovery afterwards.
Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business, including regaining access to data (records, hardware, software, etc.), communications (incoming, outgoing, toll-free, fax, etc.), workspace, and other business processes after a natural or human-induced disaster.
|  | Business Continuity is a management process that provides a framework to ensure the resilience of your business to any eventuality, to help ensure continuity of service to your key customers and the protection of your brand and reputation. In defining a SharePoint BCM it provides a basis for planning to ensure your long-term survivability following a disruptive event. Business Continuity Plans need to be clear, concise and tailored to the needs of the business. Unplanned events can have catastrophic effects and the disruptive incidents can come from accidents, criminal activity or natural disasters. Business Continuity should become part of the way you perform business. It is better to plan for incidents, which may affect your business, rather than having to "catch up" when a problem occurs. SharePoint aids in this process allowing you to ensure standardised plans and effective communication throughout. | | |  | A useful document to use when trying to fathom out how to carry out an assessment. This business continuity plan/disaster recovery (BCP/DRP) assessment is specifically designed to identify gaps in coverage, evaluate their potential impact on the organisation, and provide practical recommendations for risk mitigation. | | | | This section will describe what you need to know in order to protect the SharePoint environment. There is one golden rule when it comes to SharePoint backups: In other words, if you make a backup of a site, you will be able to restore that site, and nothing but that site. For example, you will not be able to restore a list or a single document in that site. The consequence is that you will most likely develop a strategy consisting of several backup procedures that all work together, in order to make it possible to restore whatever data has been lost. | | |  | This section will describe what you need to know in order to protect the SharePoint environment. There is one golden rule when it comes to SharePoint backups: In other words, if you make a backup of a site, you will be able to restore that site, and nothing but that site. For example, you will not be able to restore a list or a single document in that site. The consequence is that you will most likely develop a strategy consisting of several backup procedures that all work together, in order to make it possible to restore whatever data has been lost. | | | | A great little template we use when working through a Disaster Recovery format for an organisation. - Excerp from the first paragraph: It is proposed that each business unit be required to produce its own DRP, which will be integrated with the overall DRP managed by CEDRG. All recovery plans will need to take account of the role of the police in a disaster situation and make provision for a disaster occurring outside normal working hours. The integrated plan should ensure a swift and smooth recovery for a business unit from a disaster situation through effective co-ordination with the external emergency services and the companies own support services. | | | | A good guide to Business Continuty Management.
Business Continuity Management is a process driven from the top of the organisation. The first stage has to be an acceptance by the Board or the Executive Committee of the organisation that BCM is a valid approach to take. A member of the Board or Executive should be given overall responsibility for the process and appointed as sponsor or champion. This ensures that the process is given the correct level of importance within the organisation and a greater chance of effective implementation. | | | | This document is a good guide on how to develop a Disaster Recovery Strategy:
Disk crashes, power outages, communication loss-are all minor disasters that happen on an occassional basis - and most of us have a back-up plan ready to put into effect. We are dependent on computers to run our business units. But rather than just looking at getting the computer system set up, we need to concentrate on how to continue the business. There is a need to build comprehensive, effective, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) to cope with major disasters (e.g. fire / flood) | | | | Every company, and each of its locations, is susceptible to disaster. Disk crashes, power outages, communication loss-are all minor disasters that happen on an occassional basis-and most of us have a back-up plan ready to put into effect. But what about major disasters fire, flood. That's why you need a comprehensive, effective, disaster contingency plan. Most companies are dependent on their computers to stay in business. But rather than just looking at getting the computer system set up, you also should be concentrating on how to continue the business. A disaster recovery plan really should be called a "business continuity plan" because the most important goal is that your business be kept running. | |
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