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Disaster Recovery Setup Risk Register

This is a practical guide to building a risk register for a disaster recovery setup project — the living log of risks with scores, owners and responses, adapted to the realities of establishing backup and disaster-recovery capability.

What a Risk Register is

A risk register is the living log of risks with scores, owners and responses. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Risk Register. On a disaster recovery setup project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.

Why it matters for a Disaster Recovery Setup project

Disaster Recovery Setup projects live or die on establishing backup and disaster-recovery capability. A well-built risk register gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how disaster recovery setup projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.

What to include

  • Risk description and category
  • Probability and impact
  • Risk score
  • Owner
  • Response and trigger

Disaster Recovery Setup-specific considerations

Tailor the risk register to the risks that most often derail disaster recovery setup projects:

  • Recovery-time objectives
  • Untested failover
  • Ongoing maintenance

Example

On a real disaster recovery setup project, the risk register would be shaped by establishing backup and disaster-recovery capability. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — recovery-time objectives, untested failover, ongoing maintenance — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.