They??™ll probably take away your ladder; you??™ll be lucky if
you??™re left with a footstool.
The end documentation, whatever the method, should be simple. Remember, you
don??™t want to get bogged down in this step, but you don??™t want to ignore it either. Tables
11-1 and 11-2 show two real examples of what I??™ve presented as documentation (and
later worked from with my clients).
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Table 11-1. Assessing Risk with Rankings
Probability Impact
Disaster Type (1??“5) (1??“5) Risk Response? Mitigation?
Tornado Environmental 2 5 10 Yes No
Disk failure Media 3 4 12 Yes Yes
Table 11-2. Assessing Risk with Percentages and Dollar Amounts
Disaster Type Probability (%) Impact ($) Risk Response? Mitigation?
Tornado Environmental .05% $10,000,000 $500,000 Yes No
Disk failure Media .10% $10,000,000 $1,000,000 Yes Yes
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When beginning disaster recovery planning, simply create a spreadsheet with one
of these ranking techniques and start filling things in as you and the client think of
them. You can go back to the spreadsheet after a failure occurs and you find something
you??™ve missed.
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