Disaster Recovery (DR)

 Definition(s):

The Strategies and plans for recovering and restoring the organization’s technological infra-structure and capabilities after a serious interruption.

 Source: BCI

The process, policies and procedures to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure systems and applications which are vital to an organization after a disaster or outage.

 Source: DRJ

Disaster Recovery is a set of policies and procedures that an organization follows to ensure that critical business functions and data can be recovered in the event of a natural or human-caused disaster. Disaster Recovery plans typically include backup and recovery strategies, data protection, system restoration, and contingency planning.