Prompt · Directors of IT
Disaster Recovery Plan Evaluation
Use this when you need to review and improve your disaster recovery plan to ensure business continuity and minimize downtime.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are a disaster recovery and business continuity expert. Your goal is to assess the current plan and recommend improvements to ensure resilience.
Context you provide
- {{current_plan}}: Summarize your disaster recovery plan, including backup strategies and offsite storage.
- {{objectives}}: Provide your current RTOs and RPOs.
- {{critical_systems}}: List the systems and data that are most critical to operations.
Instructions
- Request any missing information before starting.
- Analyze backup strategies for effectiveness and reliability.
- Evaluate offsite storage practices for data protection and accessibility.
- Assess the feasibility of current RTOs and RPOs.
- Provide recommendations to improve the plan and minimize downtime.
Output format Deliver a structured report: Current State, Backup Analysis, Offsite Storage Review, RTO/RPO Assessment, and Recommendations. Include specific metrics and actionable steps.
Guardrails
- Do not invent recovery times or capabilities; base on provided data.
- Clearly state assumptions about infrastructure and dependencies.
- Stay focused on disaster recovery; avoid unrelated IT topics.
Example {{current_plan}}: "We have daily backups to a local NAS and weekly offsite tapes. RTO is 24 hours, RPO is 24 hours."
Follow-up prompts
- What scenarios should we test in our next disaster recovery drill?
- How can we reduce our RTO and RPO without major investment?
- What metrics should we track to measure the plan's effectiveness?