School of Crystallography Disaster Recovery Procedure

Introduction.

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance in the recovering from any disaster which might effect the functioning of the Schools computer services.

Activating the Recovery Procedure.

To invoke the disaster recovery Procedure requires a meeting of the Disaster recovery committee.

Disaster Recovery committee.

The committee will be composed of

  • the Disaster Recovery Team
  • the Project Group Representatives
  • the School Chair
  • Others as co-opted

The committee will consider

  • the state of the computing systems
  • the remedial actions possible
  • the resources available

The committee will establish priorities and issue formal reports of progress.

Any requests for a change in priorities should only be made by a Project Group Representative to the committee.

The Disaster Recovery Committee will only meet occasionally this is to prevent the Recovery Teams time being spent in meetings when it could be better spent on restoring the computer systems.

Disaster Recovery Team ( or The Team).

The disaster recovery team will consists of the CCSG staff.The Team will also need to draw on the staff of the different project groups. There will be occasional Team meetings as needed.

Project Groups.

  • Each of the research and teaching groups dependent on the department constitutes a project group.
  • Every Project Group will choose a person to act as its representative.
  • All formal contact between the Team and Project Group will be through this group representative. The Team may request the assistance of other members of the Project Group.
  • All Project Groups should perform an initial Risk Assessment and formulate a Disaster Recovery Plan.
  • This Risk Assessment and Disaster Recovery Plan will be used by the Disaster Recovery committee to establish priorities and by the Team in planing work.

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