REL 13. How do you plan for disaster recovery (DR)?

Having backups and redundant workload components in place is the start of your DR strategy. RTO and RPO are your objectives for restoration of your workload. Set these based on business needs. Implement a strategy to meet these objectives, considering locations and function of workload resources and data. The probability of disruption and cost of recovery are also key factors that help to inform the business value of providing disaster recovery for a workload.

Best practices

• REL13-BP01 Define recovery objectives for downtime and data loss
• REL13-BP02 Use defined recovery strategies to meet the recovery objectives
• REL13-BP03 Test disaster recovery implementation to validate the implementation
• REL13-BP04 Manage configuration drift at the DR site or Region
• REL13-BP05 Automate recovery