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Using Business Continuity & Owner Backup Planner

How to start, keep, reopen, and use your Business Continuity & Owner Backup Planner work.

Prepare essential work, arrange cover, check alternatives, and practice a disruption.

Open Business Continuity & Owner Backup Planner

Start with the work in front of you

  1. Start a blank plan or deliberately choose a fictional example. Build the essential activities, people, resources, and scenarios that fit your business.
  2. Keep proposed, confirmed, and tested arrangements distinct. Add response and recovery steps, then start a separate practice session or actual disruption record.
  3. Preview a full plan, scenario reference, outstanding-actions list, or selected-person briefing. Save editable plan (.json) to reopen the complete work.

Keep it and pick it up again

The editable JSON keeps arrangements, source references, practice and disruption snapshots, results, and review history. PDF and text are reading copies.

  1. Check your browser’s Downloads for the actual file. Keep the .json extension; a meaningful name and date can help you recognize the copy.
  2. Choose Open saved work below, select that file, and check the tool and summary shown.
  3. Continue in the tool. If there is already work open there, review the replacement prompt. Cancel to keep editing or download the current work before replacing it.
Check and reopen a file

What to keep in view

A named person does not establish agreement or authority. Practice results belong to that session and plan revision. Selected-person briefings contain only chosen fields plus identifying plan details. Reviewed Handover and Records imports, fresh checklist exports, and an Owner Overview source connection are available; files do not synchronize.

If it does not look right

If the file will not open, leave the original unchanged and read the error. A reading copy cannot substitute for the editable JSON. If you reopened an older copy, look for a later download; do not overwrite the current work while checking.

Find a safe next step

Where this can lead

These tools may help with the next task. A link alone does not transfer your information.

See the actual file connections

Keep your open draft?

Continuing will discard your unsaved changes. You can return to the draft and save or download it first.