Disaster
Recovery

Disaster Recovery involves a set of policies, tools and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.

Having a disaster recovery strategy in place enables an organization to maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions following a disruption. A disruptive event can be anything that puts an organization's operations at risk, from a cyberattack to power outages and equipment failures to natural disasters.

The goal of DR is for a business to continue operating as close to normal as possible. The disaster recovery process includes planning and testing and might involve a separate physical backup site for restoring operations.

Among DR metrics, the following should be taken into account when you configure replication:

Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is for measuring how long is acceptable for a recovery process to take or, in other words, how much time you can afford to lose before your organization resumes rendering its services.

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) refers to how up-to-date the files which you need to recover must be. If your mission-critical applications are very dynamic and many transactions occur within them, then you need to recover these applications instantly. Otherwise, you risk losing many transactions and, consequently, the money they were going to generate.

Work Recovery Time (WRT) indicates how much time it should take for the company to verify the integrity of the recovered data.

Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) measures how much time the company can allow for disaster recovery without suffering serious losses and adverse consequences.

We can help streamline disaster recovery with 3 simple steps.

1- Determine critical applications, documents, and resources.

2- Specify backup and off-site storage procedures.

3- Test and maintain the DRP.

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