Disaster Recovery: What you need to know to prepare for the worst

When an outage interrupts critical applications, your team needs a clear path to recovery. This practical guide outlines five steps to help you assess business requirements, design your disaster recovery strategy, and prepare your people and technology to execute it.

A best practices guide from Flexential

Natural disasters, cyber incidents, technology failures, and human error can all disrupt operations. Preparing for those scenarios means understanding which applications matter most, how quickly they need to recover, and who is responsible for each part of the response.

Whether you manage disaster recovery internally or work with a provider, use this guide to evaluate your approach and identify where planning, testing, or training needs more attention.

What you will learn: 

• Compare DIY disaster recovery and DRaaS across infrastructure, costs, operations, and testing.
• Organize applications by recovery time and recovery point objectives.
• Define roles, failover and failback procedures, and communication plans.
• Use testing to evaluate recovery performance and identify gaps.
• Prepare your team to carry out the plan when key staff may be unavailable.

Download the guide to take a more structured approach to disaster recovery planning.