Disaster Recovery Planning: Preparing for the Unthinkable (Hardcover)

Disaster Recovery Planning, Third Edition is a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute, IT professional's guide to planning for disaster recovery without hiring expensive consultants or implementing proprietary methodologies. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect new strategies and technologies -- and the lessons of 9/11, as witnessed first-hand by the author, who wrote the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's disaster recovery plan. Jon William Toigo presents step-by-step coverage of disaster recovery techniques that reflect the latest technologies in data storage, networks, server systems, and the Internet. Toigo presents focused, hands-on coverage of the disaster recovery issues that matter most to your organization, including Web, e-commerce, and ERP/supply chain disaster recovery; low-cost steps you can take right now to dramatically reduce your risks; and much more. This edition's extensive new coverage includes new data storage topologies, data re-hosting issues, protecting against ongoing power outages such as those recently faced in California; new mailroom procedures; new physical access controls; and much more.

The #1 guide to protecting and recovering your key digital assets—now fully updated.

• Disaster recovery strategies after 9/11
• Up-to-the-minute coverage: DR analysis, planning, strategy, testing, and emergency decision-making
• Solutions for centralized and decentralized environments, network and end-user recovery
• Advanced storage technologies and "time to data" metrics
• Implications of Web services and next-generation outsourcing
• Now more than ever, crucial information for every IT manager, sysadmin, and consultant!

Disaster Recovery Planning, Third Edition is a start-to-finish update to the #1 guide to disaster recovery planning and implementation. Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest strategies and technologies, it also presents the disaster recovery lessons taught by 9/11, the California energy crisis, and the anthrax scare.

In this book, Toigo offers focused, hands-on blueprints for disaster recovery in every environment, centralized and decentralized—with detailed coverage of building DR systems that address networks and encompass end-users who still maintain crucial enterprise data on local PCs and notebooks. Coverage includes:

• How to create a successful disaster recovery plan-with or without consultants
• Analyzing both technical and physical risks, including facility protection
• Choosing the right mainframe backup strategies
• Preventive and proactive techniques for backing up distributed, network-based systems
• New technologies and strategies for end-user recovery
• Emergency decision-making and recovery project teams
• Testing your plan and updating it to reflect organizational and technical change