Developing the Office Recovery Plan

When developing an office recovery plan, the contingency planner must address two major concerns. The first concern is the complete loss or extended inaccessibility of the building that houses the office environment. The second concern of the contingency planner in developing the office recovery plan is the loss of access to mainframe computers if the company's data center experiences a disaster. Many companies have established data processing centers remotely located from the office environment. They have developed separate disaster recovery strategies to restore processing services, usually at an alternative processing site (e.g., a commercial hot site or an in-house backup facility). Depending on the criticality of the business functions to be restored, users in the office environment could be without data processing services for a period of several hours to a few days.