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Disaster Recovery Plan Basics

Recover systems after outages

A disaster recovery plan defines recovery time and point objectives, documents restore/runbook steps per system, validates backups, and sets communication paths for declaring, executing, and exiting DR.

Set Targets

Define RPO/RTO per system based on business impact.

Document Steps

Write restore runbooks, dependencies, and failover procedures.

Exercise

Test DR regularly; measure actuals vs targets and improve.

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