Implementing network disaster recovery

Where can I start for tutorials and reference information on implementing network disaster recovery and business continuity planning?

A good place to start gathering information is www3.gartner.com/5_ about/news/disaster_recovery.html, where Gartner is offering open access to disaster recovery planning research. Additional resources can be found through the Disaster Recovery Institute's useful links page located at www.dr.org/uselink.htm. To get started, review your documentation and have all of the information you need to reproduce your network, system and application configurations. Maintain restorable current off-site backups of the data you would need to restore application services. An online example of one impact assessment model is available at www.so.cc.va.us/its/models/index.htm. The ACM Risks forum can be a useful source of risk-analysis information. A standard business recovery criteria checklist is available at www.fema.gov/ofm/brecov.htm. An alphabetical listing of Federal Emergency Management Agency documents is at www.fema.gov/fema.

Blass is a network architect at Change@Work in Houston. He can be reached at dr.internet@changeatwork.com.