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The Disaster Recovery Handbook: A Step-by-Step Plan to Ensure Business Continuity and Protect Vital Operations, Facilities, and Assets

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Don't get carried away by the title descriptions "Hand book" and "step-by-step plan". If anyone is buying this book with an intention of developing a BCP/DR plan, implementing and testing it they will be disappointed. This book only helps to get an overview of BC/DR planning. I couldn't find anything readily usable in the companion CD. It contains a bunch of documents with one page and one table in it. You wouldn't find anything important and useful such as sample BC/DR plan, emergency response procedure and flow diagram.

I found the book extremely valuable in getting a disaster recovery plan developed. The book was very helpful in not only showing step-by-step HOW to put together our plan, but also did a great job in explaining WHY something should be in the plan. It also focused on the entire business, not just on technology as some other books on the subject do.

This book reminds me what effects an extended outage can have. I was able to find at least one item in every chapter of this book that I could easily and cheaply implement, that not only saved me money, but allowed me to better ensure my business will continue to function in the event of serious unplanned outage.

Quite good book could be more comprehensive but for the money paid you get a good RoI.

As IT manager, I'm always looking for books that could help me to improve services... but this book help me to avoid or minimize the bad effects of problems qhen they take place.

The goal of the book is not to improve your process or your skills.. is to improve your protection, backup or restore systems and processes.

This is one of the most comprehensive technical manuals that I have ever read. The subject matter was concise, detailed and very informative. I also found to CD to contain helpful forms and tools that I use everyday in my professional career. I recommend this book to the professional trying to sharpen their skills and advance their career.

This turned out to be a great guide for Disaster Recovery. I was surprised how well it is written and the thourness of the subject matter.

It's a good guide for plainning a Business Disaster Recovery but it should have some samples that will give complete detail of a worst case scenario..


DARMAN

Book did not have the outside cover and had marker stains all over. Not the way it was described when I purchased it.