Factors influencing the success of the disaster recovery planning process

Rachmawati S.W., Bambang Iswanto, Winarni

Indomas Mulia, Konsultan Air Bersih dan Sanitasi, Jakarta 12430, Indonesia

E-mail: rachma_wardani25@ymail.com

Abstract

 Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is one of the IT processes started in the 1960’s in conjunction with the growth of the electronic data processing capability in an organization. It was during the era of the mainframe machines to facilitate the organization in automating some human tasks [1]. People are aware of the criticality of the mainframe functions, data captured and information provided, therefore the development of DRP to ensure that there are proper backup of data and able to restore when there are any losses of facility in the future. From non-IT perspective, a DRP could also mean the planning and recovering of the businesses, government functions and general economic activities in an area impacted by natural or man-made disaster. Such as, most of the organizations in the World Trade Centre of United States of America had a successful DRP and as a result they are able to relocate to alternate premises to continue their business.

DRP evolved over the years and new buzz words emerged to complement the DRP function in the 1990’s, such as, the business continuity management (BCM) [2], Contingency Planning and IT service continuity management [3].

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