The backup recovery strategy selection to maintain the business continuity plan

Abstract

Indonesia faces the risks of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis, which destruct its land areas and also result in damage to client and server computer systems. The demand for the information technology availability and performance becomes high. Disaster recovery plan is designed to ensure the vital business processes continuation in the event a disaster occurs. The problem is how to make the best way in selecting backup recovery strategy based on the benefits to the cost ratio so as to minimize the business losses that will be caused by the failure of an application system. This research aims to make decisions that can help make certain parties take the best decision in choosing the backup recovery strategy for a business continuity plan in the Trilogy University. The research method used is the multi-criteria decision-making and analytical hierarchy process by using the expert choice software. From the research results can be concluded that the first order in backup strategy is hot standby option 59,4%, followed by cold standby option 23,3%, then the choice of warm standby option 17,4%. The data inconsistency rate is 0.02, smaller than 0.1 as the maximum value of inconsistency ratio.