Book details of 'Guide to Disaster Recovery'

Title	Guide to Disaster Recovery
Author(s)	Michael Erbschloe, John Vacca
ISBN	0619131225
Language	English
Published	March 2003
Publisher	Course Technology

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Chapter one suggests that disaster recovery plans are important, and outlines a minimal structure, supported by some trivial illustrations. The list of personnel and roles for disaster planning is expanded in chapter two. Random ideas on risk assessment, as well as twenty-five pages of forms, are listed in chapter three. Chapter four raises various concerns to be addressed in priorizing recovery--and reproduces a number of additional forms. There are a number of points, in chapter five, that would be worth considering when preparing a disaster plan, but not all are essential, and there is not a clear plan to follow in order to avoid leaving gaps in your procedures. Communications with outside entities, primarily suppliers, is discussed in chapter six. Chapter seven is a melange of miscellaneous topics roughly related to incident response and cyberattacks. Various special situations, products, and businesses are touched on in chapter eight. The implementation factors considered in chapter nine are mostly to do with training. Chapter ten's review of testing gives us more forms and tables. Diverse factors that should be contemplated in regard to maintenance are raised in chapter eleven. Chapter twelve finishes off with assorted stories, that might possibly be related to the idea of followup. The core of the material presented in this book is quite limited, and could have been stated in a much smaller work. The illustrations and charts serve primarily to pad out the length of the work, and the excessive verbiage is probably for the same purpose. In comparison to a volume such as Toigo's "Disaster Recovery Planning" (see reviews), this text is bloated and of only limited utility. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2004
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