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BCM Planning Methodology

BCM Institute Glossary in Wiki (Version 1.0 - Under Construction) or BCMpedia provides Disaster Recovery Professional with definitions that helps to reduce confusion, thus promoting a common understanding and interpretation when implementing the DR Planning Process which is identical to the BCM planning process.

While a defined word or phrase can have several other meanings or connotations especially on its usage and interpretation, this BCM Institute's Wiki site or BCMpedia will provide you with one of the closest definition. It is also the most comprehensive set of disaster recovery terms as it includes most of the key definitions from the many reliable sources.

Disaster Recovery Glossary

A Alternate Site Asynchronous Availability B Backup Strategy C Clustering Critical Application Cold Site Commercial Cold Site D Data Protection - Category Database Shadowing Data Synchronization Declaration Fee Disaster Declaration Disaster Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Plan (DR Plan) Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) Disk Mirroring Distributed Systems E Electronic Vaulting F Failover Fault-tolerant H High Availability Hot Site I Incident Management Inter-dependencies J Journaling K L Load Balancing Local Area Network M Mainframe Major Application Maximum Acceptable Outage (MAO) Maximum Acceptable Outage Time (MAOT) Mirrored Site Mirroring Mobile Recovery Site Mobile Site Mobilization

N Network Attached Storage O Offsite Storage Online Tape Vaulting Organization DR Coordinator P Planning Software R Recover Recovery Objectives - Category Reciprocal Agreement Reduce Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID) Remote Journaling Replication Response Restore Resume Re-sync Return Request for Proposal Risk Assessment S Service Level Agreement System System Development Life Cycle Storage Area Network Synchronous System Backup T Test - Checklist Test - Cutover Test - Paper Test - Parallel Test - Table-top Test - Walkthrough U Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) V Vital Records Virtualisation W Warm Site

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