During disaster recovery, an organization may have limited staff, equipment, and time to bring systems back online. Why is it essential to establish restoration priorities before beginning recovery activities?
It ensures the most business-critical services and data are restored first, minimizing downtime and revenue loss.
It allows technicians to work through systems alphabetically, creating an orderly work log.
It decides which backup media should be moved off-site after the recovery is finished.
It spreads recovery resources evenly across all systems so every department is treated the same, regardless of impact.
Prioritization is based on the business impact analysis and identifies which systems and data are most critical for keeping the organization operational. By restoring these high-priority services first, the business can resume essential functions quickly, meet recovery-time objectives, and reduce financial and operational losses. Tasks or resources that do not directly support critical functions can be addressed later once core services are running.
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