Curious Pandas

Resilience: DR & Business Continuity

When the building, the region or the backups fail - what you lose, and how fast you are back.

  1. 1How much can you lose?Every disaster asks two questions - how much data is gone, and how long you are down. RPO and RTO are the answers you choose in advance, per system, and the business chooses them, not IT.
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    12 min+35 XP
  2. 2Backups that actually restoreA backup you have never restored is a hope, not a backup. Learn the 3-2-1 rule, why ransomware hunts backups, why sync is not backup - and find the copy that has quietly failed since March.
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    15 min+40 XP
  3. 3From backup-and-restore to active-activeFour ways to survive losing a whole site, from cheap and slow to expensive and near-instant. The right one is the cheapest that meets each system's targets - and replication, the thing that makes the fast ones fast, copies your mistakes too.
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    15 min+40 XP
  4. 4Keeping the business runningDisaster recovery brings systems back. Business continuity keeps the business going while they're gone - by knowing which processes can't wait, what they depend on, and what people do by hand in the meantime. Then you test the plan on paper before reality does.
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    15 min+40 XP
  5. 5Incidents and blameless postmortemsWhen something breaks, a few habits decide how long it stays broken - a declared severity, clear roles, honest updates. Afterwards, one decides whether it breaks again - a postmortem that asks what the system allowed, not who to blame.
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    15 min+40 XP

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