An alternate hot site plan should provide for an
alternative (backup) site. The alternate site has a backup system
for temporary use while the home site is being reestablished.
- Notify ____________ of the nature of the disaster and of its desire
for a hot site.
- Request air shipment of modems to ____________ for communications.
(See ____________ for communications for the hot site.)
- Confirm in writing the telephone notification to ____________ within
48 hours of the telephone notification.
- Begin making necessary travel arrangements to the site for the
operations team.
- Confirm that you have enough save media and that it is packed for
shipment to restore on the backup system.
- Prepare a purchase order to cover the use of the backup system.
- Review the checklist for all necessary materials before departing
to the hot site.
- Make sure that the disaster recovery team at the disaster site
has the necessary information to begin restoring the site.
- Provide for travel expenses (cash advance).
- After arriving at the hot site, contact home base to establish
communications procedures.
- Review materials brought to the hot site for completeness.
- Start to load the system from the save media.
- Begin normal operations as soon as possible:
- Daily jobs
- Daily saves
- Weekly saves
- Plan the schedule to back up the hot-site system in order to restore
on the home-base computer.