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Reviewed 26 October 2026. Original publication date retained: 2025-05-14.
Retail operations depend on services that need to recover in a controlled way after disruption. An audit can follow the evidence behind recovery assumptions without treating a successful backup job as proof that a complete service can be restored.
Questions to follow in an audit
- Which services and dependencies are included in the recovery plan?
- When was recovery actually exercised and what was learned?
- Who decides whether a recovered service is ready to resume?
Connect the records with practice
Compare the plan, a recorded exercise, outstanding findings and the evidence supporting a subsequent readiness decision.
These are illustrative audit trails, not findings about a named organisation, technical instructions or a guarantee of a particular result. The appropriate evidence depends on the activities, risks and agreed scope. The organisation remains responsible for its operations and legal obligations.
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Further reading: ISO information security.