NEXUS SYSTEMS GROUP — DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING GUIDE

1. Identify critical business services.
2. Map dependencies, owners, data, and infrastructure.
3. Define RTO and RPO.
4. Select backup, replication, or failover patterns.
5. Protect recovery credentials and copies.
6. Write recovery and communication runbooks.
7. Test restoration or failover.
8. Record evidence, gaps, and improvement actions.
9. Re-test after significant changes.

Backups alone do not prove recoverability.