Overview
DR planning process: risk assessment (identify threats), business impact analysis (quantify downtime cost), strategy selection (select recovery approach), documentation (write detailed procedures), and testing (validate the plan works).
Key Concepts
BIA: Quantifies financial and operational impact of system downtime. Risk Assessment: Identifies threats and likelihood. Recovery Strategy: Approach for restoring each system. RTO and RPO: Targets that drive strategy selection.
Best Practices
Conduct a BIA before selecting DR strategies. Involve business stakeholders in RTO/RPO definition. Document procedures at a level that allows someone unfamiliar with the system to execute them. Test plans annually.
Key Considerations
DR plans become outdated quickly — establish a process for keeping them current. DR testing reveals gaps that documentation reviews miss. Ransomware scenarios require specific DR procedures.
Next Steps
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