Dictionary · Defensive Security
Disaster Recovery
Recovery · Intermediate
The plans and capabilities for restoring critical technology after a severe disruption. Recovery time and recovery point objectives state how fast and how much data loss is acceptable.
It answers where you will run and how recent the data will be after a fire, a region outage, or a destructive incident. A plan that has never been rehearsed is still a theory.
Example: A recovery exercise brings the order system up in a second region within four hours, using data from one hour before the failure.
Common misconception
- Disaster recovery is not only backups. It includes people, locations, and the order in which systems return.