Beyond storage: 12 types of critical disaster recovery teams

Editor's note: When preparing your IT group to avoid the effects of a potential disaster, one critical component you can't overlook is the need to create and staff recovery teams. While this task encompasses several IT factions, the authors maintain it goes well beyond that. This excerpt shares more about the 12 types of teams you should identify and staff ahead of time, as part of efforts to develop an overall disaster recovery plan.

Recovery teams should include the people who know their areas the best, without regard for ego, but rather with regard for appropriately speedy recovery from the disaster. Your organization may need more recovery teams than we suggest below, or you may find that some of the teams we have identified are not appropriate.

At a minimum, team leaders for each appropriate group must be identified, and their management as well as the individuals themselves must agree to the selections. Once the team leaders are in place, then the rest of the teams must be staffed; the responsibility for team staffing usually falls to the team leaders. It is inappropriate for any one individua

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The following are the 12 recovery teams that we have identified:

Content in this tip has been excerpted by permission from the book, "Blueprints for high availability, Second edition," authored by Evan Marcus and Hal Stern, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.

About the authors: Evan Marcus is a frequent SearchStorage.com contributor and an expert at answering readers' questions related to availability, backup and disaster recovery-related issues. He is also a principal engineer for Veritas Software and the industry's data availability maven, with over 12 years of experience in this area. He is also a frequent speaker at industry technical conferences.

Hal Stern is the vice president and chief technology officer for the Services business unit of Sun Microsystems. He has worked on reliability and availability issues for some of the largest online trading and sports information as well as several network service providers.

Do you have a question for Evan Marcus? You can find him in our High Availability category.

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