Chapter 8: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Recovery and Restoration

When it comes to trying to recover from a harmful event to business processes, there should always be a restoration team and a salvage team. The restoration team will get the offsite facility ready to go, while the salvage team will begin to fix the site that was effected by the disaster. After something negative has happened that effects the continuity of business, the effects of the disaster should be analyzed. This is where the damage assessment team comes in. After there two things have been accomplished, the business is then in a state known as recovery phase. All of these processes should already be in place. That is what the BCP is for. If a company is in these states, the BCP is in action and should be carried out explicitly. After all has calmed down, the company is then in a state known as the restitution phase. They will either move back into the original site, or move to a new one.