What's DRP and BCP?

DRP deals with the restoration of systems in the event of a disaster. This is handled by the IT Dept.

BCP defines the business requirements of the DR Plan. Example, the RTO and RPO.

Interesting. So does both DRP and BCP be planned together at the same time?

If I have more than 1 systems, does that means I need to have more DRP and BCP?

There is no hard and fast rule. But both DRP and BCP can be planned to run together or separate. It depends on how many systems a company has.

I just want to add that IT cannot decide the BCP requirements. The business has to define that. They have to conduct the Business Impact Analysis and to define which of their business applications is critical and what sort of Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective is required for each system. With these information, then IT can formulate the DRP strategy.

If you have more than 1 systems, you have to see how large is your scope and whether the current IT team can handle the scope. Or you can break down into multiple DRP tests. It is up to the company to decide. In one of the DRP tests that I had done previously, we had to recover at least 5 web applications as they all interlink with each other.

Hi all, can I find out what's the difference between DRP and BCP? I always got confused between these two terms.