What is Disaster Recovery?

Disaster Recovery is the implementation of a prepared project plan which describes the tasks necessary to recover critical business functions after a disaster. The recovery occurs between geographically separated data centers using one or more methods of storage replication between the data centers.

• Disaster Recovery Planning is the process of creating the disaster recovery project plan.
• The goal is to minimize downtime for business functions, not systems.
• Business function recovery times and maximum allowable data loss is specified during the business impact analysis.
• Implementation of a disaster recovery plan requires management declaration of a disaster.
• Initiation of the disaster recovery plan is a manual process.