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Disaster Recovery Testing Checklist
DR Testing Checklist
A Disaster Recovery Plan should be tested regularly to confirm that recovery procedures work as expected.
A Disaster Recovery Plan may look complete on paper. Testing can uncover missing information, outdated contact details, unavailable backups or recovery procedures that do not work as expected.
Use this Disaster Recovery Testing Checklist to review your organisations recovery arrangements.
1. Disaster Recovery Plan Review
2. Critical Systems Checklist
3. Backup Testing Checklist
4. Ransomware Recovery Test
5. Microsoft 365 Recovery Review
6. Server Recovery Test
7. Internet Failure Test
8. Incident Response Test
9. Communication Test
10. Record the Test Results
Every Disaster Recovery test should be documented.
After the Test
Testing is only useful if the results are acted upon.
After each test:
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