Campus-wide IT Recovery Implementation FAQ

These roles are the same in both policies.

There is no direct correlation between them, but an application with a High Availability Level will likely have a High Recovery Level.

We will use UC Ready to house ITDR plans

UC Ready tool is available for all California university systems.

It's a cloud-hosted SAAS tool.

UC Ready tool is funded by UCOP and currently, there is no cost associated. However, it is suggested to only add only relevant users to keep the cost low for UCOP.

bIT Business Continuity office will move current plans from Castellan to UC Ready.

Access UC Ready tool here(link is external). Requires Calnet authentication. The tool will register you once you are in, but you won't see any plans. Submit a request to itdrhelp@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) for access to plans relevant to your area of service. The ITDR admin will then assign the plan to your profile.

In short, yes. The decision to have off-site storage for R1 and R2 is upon the Unit after carefully assessing the risk and budget. The Unit head can work with UITRL to assess risk, and the Unit head will make the decision.

We are piloting in Berkeley IT, and will rollout to campus in late Spring. Non-IT Unit Heads will be made aware when we complete the pilot.

Unit Heads will need to secure funding through the budget planning process.

Collaboration and coordination should happen so that for such a system, a comprehensive DR plan is developed. bIT service team will assign a designated member for UITRL, and Unit head will assign UITRL coordinator within its unit.

Yes.

No, for this effort, the focus is the ITDR plan, but there is some acknowledged dependency between the two.