{"id":7111,"date":"2013-09-07T15:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:36:35","slug":"business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/13767\/business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery-bcdr","title":{"rendered":"Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Does Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR or BC\/DR) is a set of processes and techniques used to help an organization recover from a disaster and continue or resume routine business operations. It is a broad term that combines the roles and functions of IT and business in the aftermath of a disaster.<\/p>\n

Techopedia Explains Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery<\/span><\/h2>\n

BCDR is divided into two different phases\/components:<\/p>\n

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  • Business Continuity (BC): BC deals with the business operations side of BCDR. It involves designing and creating policies and procedures that ensure that essential business functions\/processes are available during and after a disaster. BC can include the replacement of staff, service availability issues, business impact analysis and change management.<\/li>\n
  • Disaster Recovery (DR): DR is primarily focused on the IT side of BCDR. It defines how an organization’s IT department will recover from a natural or artificial disaster. The processes within this phase can include server and network restoration, copying backup data and provisioning backup systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Typically, most medium and large enterprises have an integrated BCDR plan or separate BC and DR plans for dealing with unforeseen natural or man-made disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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