Designing a disaster recovery plan for a small forensics lab

1. Explain what to do in the event of a total disaster. What are your considerations? What is the first step to be taken?

2. Install/recovery procedure

3. Hardware Failure and how to go about replacing the hardware in the event of a complete failure

4. OS failure? How to get it up and running again

5. Software failure? How to reinstall and configure your daily used software

6. Theft or break-in? What to do if you discover something is lost or stolen