Netservice offers a plan for your business continuity in the event of a disaster that destroys part or all of a business's resources, including IT equipment, data records and in extreme circumstances, the physical space of an organization. The goal of a DRP is to resume normal computing capabilities in as little time as possible. A typical DRP has several stages:

	understanding an organization's activities and how all of its resources are interconnected
	assessing an organization's vulnerability in all areas, including operating procedures, physical space and equipment, data integrity and contingency planning
	understanding how all levels of the organization would be affected in the event of a disaster
	developing a short-term recovery plan
	developing a long-term recovery plan, including how to return to normal business operations and prioritizing the order of functions that are resumed
	testing and consistently maintaining and updating the plan as the business changes.

The key to a successful DRP is taking steps to preventing the likelihood of disasters from occurring, from simple tape and CD backups, to RAID, mirrored servers or using a hot site (A fully operational offsite data processing facility equipped with both hardware and system software to be used in the event of a disaster or for disaster recovery) or cold site (A disaster recovery facility that provides only the physical space for recovery operations while the organization using the space provides its own hardware and software systems) to back up data archives.