disaster-recovery

Define disaster recovery tiers by classifying systems into Tier 1-3 with specific RTO and RPO targets. This tiered approach ensures recoverability and continuity while providing selection heuristics tailored to each system's criticality and requirements.

Create disaster recovery runbooks by using templates for failure modes, failover patterns, and drill procedures. These playbooks outline specific verification steps, backup strategies, and governance artifacts to ensure verifiable evidence trails during recovery.

Test disaster recovery readiness by scheduling and running tabletop and real DR drills using provided templates. Validate restores against defined RPO targets to verify recoverability, ensuring all exercises generate documented evidence trails for governance compliance.

Harden backups by implementing immutable backup strategies and verifying restores against defined RPO targets. This approach ensures data recoverability and continuity while satisfying governance requirements for evidence trails and compliance artifacts.

Disaster recovery planning supports multi-region failover across Tier 1-3 systems by providing tier classification, failover patterns, and drill templates. It ensures recoverability and continuity with verifiable evidence trails for governance and compliance requirements.

Governance artifacts and evidence trails are needed for disaster recovery to satisfy compliance requirements and verify drill outcomes. They document tier classification, RTO and RPO targets, runbooks, and verification steps, ensuring auditable recoverability across regions.