IT Disaster Recovery Plan Template for Small Business (With Example)
A fill-in IT disaster recovery plan template: system tiers, RTO and RPO per system, backup method, runbook skeleton and tests, plus a worked small-office example.
Everett Phelps
6 published analyses on CPE World.
Analysis by Everett
Your Critical App Isn't Yours: Building a SaaS Dependency Inventory
Find the shadow SaaS, record what each service holds and connects to, prove the data export works, and plan the manual day when a vendor is down.
Best UPS Battery Backup for a Home Office or Small Network
Size a UPS battery backup to your real load, pick pure sine wave where a PC needs it, and match it to the job: router and modem, one desk, or a workstation and NAS.
Cloud Region Outages: Designing Disaster Recovery Across Providers
Zone vs. region failures, control-plane traps, pilot light vs. warm standby vs. active-active, honest multi-cloud trade-offs and a 30-day plan to start with.
Immutable Backups and Clean Rooms: Recovering From Ransomware
Why DR replication copies the encryption, how immutable and isolated backups differ, and a clean-room runbook that rebuilds identity before anything else.
RTO vs. RPO: Setting Recovery Targets Without Guesswork
How to derive RTO and RPO from the business impact analysis, tier your applications, price each target and prove it in a test instead of assuming it.