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Disaster Recovery
Quinn Gaalswyk, CISA
Senior Information Systems Auditor
University of Minnesota
Disaster Recovery Intro.
• Why is a disaster recovery plan important?• What should a disaster recovery plan cover?• What progress has the University been making with
disaster recovery planning?• How should disaster recovery plans be tested?
Importance of a DR Plan
• What is a DR Plan?• Why do you think a DR
Plan is important?
Business Continuity vs. DR Plans
Situations a DR Plan Must Address
Required DR Plan Situation Types:• The equipment and/or data is not available (e.g.,
the system crashed).• The data center is not available (e.g., the building
burnt down).• Staff can not get to the data center (e.g. a bird flu
epidemic):
DR Plan Recovery Components • Identify key staff and reports
– Staff to direct and perform the recovery process, and test results.
– Reports that confirm success of recovery• Process for testing the success of the recovery• Equipment requirement lists and where equipment
is to be maintained• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)• Minimum Operational Requirements (MOR)
Backups:
Overview of Backup Requirements
• Confirm schedule of backup – Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Confirm backups are secure– Physical Security to backups– Logical Access to backups
• Monitoring of backups to confirm completeness
Disaster Recovery vs. Cost
Current DR Plan Statuses?
DR Plan Progress at UMN • OIA’s Disaster Recovery team headed by Lois Stark
spearheading effort• Have completed several DR Plans• Provides templates for units that include key DR plan
components• OIA - UDMS provides a centralized backup solution for
many units Utilize SAN and physical tape backups – Utilize SAN, disk storage, virtual and physical tape backups
Quick Comparison of Completed DR Plans
PTS – EGMS Plan
Testing of DR Plans at the UMN