Applications Recovery Plan Template

Purpose

This Recovery Plan documents the strategies, personnel, procedures, and resources necessary to recover the Application following any type of short or long-term disruption.  The following objectives have been established for this plan:

• Maximize the value of contingency planning by establishing recovery plans that consist of the following phases:
  1. Notification / Activation:  To activate the plan and notify vendors, customers, employees, etc of the recovery activities
  2. Recovery Phase:  To recover and resume temporary IT operations on alternate hardware (equipment) and possibly at an alternate location
  3. Restoration Phase:  To restore IT systems processing capabilities to normal operations at the primary location or the new location

• Define the activities, procedures, and essential resources required to perform processing requirements during prolonged periods of disruption to normal operations.
• Allocate responsibilities to designated personnel and provide guidance for recovering during prolong periods of interruption to normal operations.
• Make certain coordination with other staff is conducted.
• Ensure coordination with external contacts, like vendors, suppliers, etc. who will participate in the recovery process.

Table of Contents for Applications Recovery Plan Template

PLAN MAINTENANCE

PLAN EXERCISE

PLAN LOCATION

PLAN DISTRIBUTION

PLAN INTRODUCTION

Purpose
Applicability
Scope
Assumptions
Use Of This Plan

APPLICATION PROFILE

Application Specifications
Server Requirements
Database Requirements
Network Requirements
Input (Feeders) Dependencies on Applications / Systems
Output (Receivers) Dependencies on Applications / Systems
Business Processes

PLAN ACTIVATION PROCEDURES

Plan Activation Team

TEAM MEMBERS & RESPONSIBILITIES 

Activate Team Members
Travel to Alternate Location

RECOVERY PROCEDURES

Restore Application Services
File Verification Tasks
Application Validation and Synchronization Tasks
Restoration Procedures
Original or New Site Restoration
Concurrent Processing
Plan Deactivation

APPENDIX

Appendix A:  Employee Contact List
Appendix B:  Vendor Contact List

This Data Center Recovery Plan template suite includes the following templates and guides:

• Application Recovery Plan Template (23 pages)
• Application Recovery Plan Development Guide (18 pages)
• Database Recovery Plan Template (19 pages)
• Database Recovery Plan Development Guide (16 pages)
• Network Recovery Plan Template (20 pages)
• Network Recovery Plan Development Guide (15 pages)
• Disaster Recovery Plan Template (38 pages)
• Disaster Recovery Plan Development Guide (17 pages)
• Server Recovery Plan Template (19 pages)
• Server Recovery Plan Development Guide (15 pages)
• Telecom Recovery Plan Template (19 pages)
• Telecom Recovery Plan Development Guide (17 pages)
• Example Application Recovery Plan Template (23 Pages)
• Example Disaster Recovery Plan (38 Pages)

Cost: $225

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