Disaster Recovery Plans
Comprehensive strategies for business continuity
Disaster recovery planning ensures your systems can recover from failures with documented procedures, regular testing, and proven capabilities.
Disaster recovery plans are included in the M plan only.
Key metrics#
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)#
Maximum acceptable data loss measured in time.
| RPO | Data Loss | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | No data loss | Financial transactions |
| 1 hour | Up to 1 hour | Business applications |
| 24 hours | Up to 1 day | Non-critical systems |
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)#
Maximum acceptable downtime.
| RTO | Downtime | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| Minutes | < 15 min | Mission-critical |
| Hours | 1-4 hours | Important systems |
| Days | 24+ hours | Non-critical |
What we deliver#
Business continuity planning#
- Risk assessment
- Impact analysis
- Recovery strategy design
- Resource requirements
- Communication plans
Backup strategy#
- Backup frequency based on RPO
- Multiple backup locations
- Encryption at rest
- Retention policies
- Verification procedures
Failover implementation#
- Cross-region replication
- Automated failover triggers
- DNS failover
- Database replication
- State management
Documentation#
- Runbooks for each scenario
- Contact lists
- Decision trees
- Recovery procedures
- Verification checklists
Disaster scenarios covered#
| Scenario | Recovery Strategy |
|---|---|
| Region failure | Cross-region failover |
| Data corruption | Point-in-time restore |
| Security breach | Isolation and rebuild |
| Provider outage | Multi-cloud failover |
| Human error | Backup restoration |
| Natural disaster | Geographic redundancy |
DR testing#
Regular disaster recovery testing ensures readiness:
Test types#
- Tabletop exercises — Walk through procedures
- Partial failover — Test individual components
- Full failover — Complete DR activation
- Chaos engineering — Controlled failure injection
Test frequency#
- Tabletop: Monthly
- Partial: Quarterly
- Full: Annually
Test deliverables#
- Test results report
- Issues identified
- Remediation plan
- Updated runbooks
Implementation#
- Assessment — Current state and requirements
- Design — DR strategy and architecture
- Implementation — Backup and failover setup
- Documentation — Runbooks and procedures
- Testing — Validation and refinement
- Maintenance — Ongoing updates and testing
Available in#
- M Plan — Complete disaster recovery planning