Disaster Recovery Planning: For Computers and Communication Resouces (Paperback)

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Information Technology

Everything you need to know to avoid costly down time and get your systems back online in no time.

Don't wait for disaster to strike to find out how vulnerable your systems are. Your company's very survival could depend on how quickly you restore your computer and communications systems following a disaster. In this down-to-earth, nuts-and-bolts guide, expert Jon Toigo tells you what you need to do to prevent many disasters from happening and how to minimize the impact of those that cannot be avoided.

Jon Toigo examines the many causes of computer system failures and gives you proven, logical, easy-to-follow steps you can take to avoid them. A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to disaster recovery, from planning concept to execution, Disaster Recovery Planning:

• Covers the recovery requirements of mainframes as well as personal computers, LANs, WANs, departmental processors, and communications systems
• Provides a detailed analysis of disaster avoidance systems that can prevent network down time from occurring
• Explores the politics of disaster recovery planning, with tips on how to work with management to get the funding you need
• Comes with a disk containing all the forms you need to quickly develop your own disaster recovery plan

Don't wait for disaster to strike. Do something now.

Get your hands on this book and find out how to be prepared for the worst.

From the Publisher

This book examines the causes of computer systems failures and explains how to create a disaster recovery plan that will help business to avoid many disasters and minimize the impact of disasters that cannot be avoided. It incorporates the recovery requirements of new technologies, including PCs, LANs, departmental processors and communications systems. It provides a detailed analysis of disaster avoidance systems that can prevent some disasters from occurring. It covers the politics of disaster recovery planning from selling management and securing the cooperation of departmental managers to negotiating effective contracts with vendors of disaster recovery products and services.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Dis edition (December 21, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471121754
• ISBN-13: 978-0471121756
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #476,717 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much meat here, January 28, 2000

By	J. G. Heiser (Sunninghill, Berks) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Comprehensive, yet superficial. I learned a few interesting things, but the book doesn't really contain information on HOW to do anything--it is just ABOUT. Misses the mark.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Project approach & comes with a wealth of extra material, July 11, 2001

By	Linda Zarate "IT Ops Consultant" (Azusa, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I like this book because it's a structured introduction to disaster recovery planning. I used this book as one resource when writing a whitepaper on recovery management, and found that the structure of the book and project-driven approach allowed me to identify and clarify key issues. While there is nothing new in this book with respect to disaster recovery planning, the way the subject is presented makes this book valuable.

Among the key strengths of this book that I particularly like are: (1) the ten-step project plan will give anyone who is tasked with developing a disaster recovery plan a clearly defined roadmap, (2) checklists and forms that support each stage of the project plan are included on the accompanying disk, making your job a lot easier (most of them will require extensive tailoring, but the format and key content areas are valuable), and (3) the author drills down into detail in every project stage, which provides even more guidance.

If you're tasked with developing a disaster recovery plan and don't know where to start, or are validating or reviewing existing plans, but are not a disaster recovery expert, this is an excellent resource. It earns 5 stars for making a complex subject understandable, providing a clear plan and for the wealth of forms and checklists that come with it.

2.0 out of 5 stars Out of Date, September 2, 2005

By	K. Smith "kjs" (CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This work was published in 1995, it seemed out of date, and out of touch. The media that came with it was a 3.5" floppy disk.