Section one, Prevention, is the key for a successful recovery of water damaged computers and software. This section includes sample disaster prevention procedures, charts for phone numbers for members of the team, and selected lists of companies that provide services and products. Use this section for training before the disaster, or for task allocation during the disaster. Section Three, Planning, is designed to help develop disaster response procedures for your institution or information center.
Checklists guide the planning and decision making process.
Disaster Response and Prevention for Computers and Data does not include recovery of lost data or procedures for getting the data retrieval aspects of the information center up and running. The information contained in this manual was gleaned from MIS, computer, records management, and library literature. Extensive bibliographies on disaster prevention, response and planning exist elsewhere. A selected list of additional reading is located at the end of the manual. The selections provide an introduction to the field.