The aforementioned processes that form part of the disaster recovery plan can achieve better results if certain best practices are followed. One of these is having an offsite location to store archived backups. The cloud is a ready solution for safe off-site storage.

Another practice is to keep recording any changes made to the IT infrastructure to ease the process of reviewing the suitability of the contingency plan against the new systems. It is also good to have proactive monitoring of IT systems so as to determine when a disaster is occurring early enough and to start the recovery process. Organizations should also implement fault-tolerant systems that can withstand a certain degree of exposure to a disaster. Implementing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) for servers is one way of achieving redundancy. It is also good to test the integrity of the backups that are made to ensure that they have no errors. It would be disappointing for an organization to realize after a disaster that its backups have errors and are useless. Lastly, the organization should regularly test its process of restoring a system from backups. All the IT staff need to be fully knowledgeable about this.