All organisations should consider producing a network disaster recovery document as part of their overall site disaster recovery plans.

Points to consider include:

• identify staff responsible for each action required by the Recovery Plan
• keep machine rooms tidy to minimise fire risk
• maintain offsite secondary servers
• agree to exchange systems with other sites
• keep offsite copies of:
  • backups
  • the router configuration
  • critical mailing lists
  • configuration tables for vital services.

Further advice may be found at UCISA and ACU (Janet(UK) takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of external web sites).