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Disaster Recovery Plan Template
A fill-in disaster recovery plan for small and mid-size businesses. List your systems, set recovery targets, check your backups, name your people, write runbooks and test them. Most teams can complete a first version in an afternoon.
PDF · 17 pages · Updated October 2026
For: Founders, CTOs and IT leads with no written recovery plan, or one nobody has tested.
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What’s inside.
- How to use this template
- Plan basics
- What you are protecting
- Recovery targets
- Backups
- Roles and contacts
- Declaring a disaster
- Recovery runbooks
- Communication plan
- Testing the plan
- After an incident
- One-page checklist
What you’ll be able to do.
- List what you run and what it costs you when each system is down.
- Set a recovery time and a data-loss limit for every system.
- Check backups by restoring them, on a schedule.
- Name who declares a disaster and who talks to customers.
- Follow ready-made runbooks for a server outage, a bad deploy and ransomware.
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