Overview of Disaster Recovery

Identifying Disaster Recovery Requirements

Before the development of disaster recovery Strategy, companies must identify their Disaster recovery needed to ensure they provide enough protection Key resources. Following is a list of high-level Steps you can use to identify the disaster Recovery requirements:

1. Define a valuable resource for the organization. These resources include the data, services, and Servers run on the data and services.

2. Identify the risks associated with Key resources. For example, the data may be intentionally or unintentionally deleted, and a hard disk drive or Data stored in the storage controller can fail. In addition, the use of critical data services may fail or many reasons (such as network problems), the server may fail due to hardware failure. Primary Power outages can also cause the entire site is closed.

3. Determine the execution time required for recovery. According to their business needs, the organization must decide how much time to recover critical resources acceptable. Scenes Vary from minutes to hours or even a day.

4. Develop recovery strategies. Based on the previous step, the organization will define a service Level agreement will include services such as service levels and time. Organization should develop a disaster recovery strategy, which will help them reduce risk, and at the same time, Restore its key resources within their business needs minimum acceptable time.