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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Plan recovery objectives, failover validation, and communication steps before a major service disruption. Audience: Platform operations teams and business continuity owners. Typical setup time: 12-20 minutes.

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Plan recovery objectives, failover validation, and communication steps before a major service disruption.

Audience
Platform operations teams and business continuity owners
Typical time
12-20 minutes

Before You Begin

  • Set target RTO and RPO by business-critical workflow.
  • Identify infrastructure, database, and application recovery owners.
  • Schedule tabletop and technical recovery exercises.

Guide walkthrough

Step 1

Define RTO and RPO targets

Set recovery objectives by business impact so restoration work is prioritized correctly.

  • Define target RTO and RPO for API, data, and dashboard workflows.
  • Prioritize restore order for business-critical services.
  • Document dependencies that could delay recovery.

What success looks like

Document dependencies that could delay recovery.

Step 2

Document restore and verification workflow

Clarify who executes each recovery task and what proves successful restoration.

  • Assign responders for infrastructure, data, and application recovery tasks.
  • Define verification checks for data consistency and service availability.
  • Include communication checkpoints for internal and customer updates.

What success looks like

Include communication checkpoints for internal and customer updates.

Step 3

Run and review continuity drills

Periodic exercises reduce uncertainty and improve time-to-recovery.

  • Run tabletop and technical restore drills on a regular schedule.
  • Track drill gaps, follow-up actions, and due dates.
  • Update runbooks and contact lists after each exercise.

What success looks like

Update runbooks and contact lists after each exercise.

What success looks like

  • Recovery runbook includes validation checks and communication steps.
  • Drill findings are tracked and updates applied after each exercise.
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