Summary
Disaster recovery is an important topic as it addresses the survivability of a company should an event occur that affects their IT infrastructure. You learned about cloud provider DR capabilities and key concepts such as restore and repair time objectives.
Preparing for a disaster requires extensive input and approval from your company’s executive management. Based on the business continuity plan, you learned how to create a disaster recovery approach that meets those needs. You learned about many of the technical issues that need to be investigated when creating a complete DR plan including dealing with WAN and ISP issues, scaling backup equipment, and keeping the backup configuration synchronized with the live data.
Hot, warm, and cold DR site architectures were introduced, and the pros and cons of each design were discussed. The chapter discussed other DR technical operations such as transferring data in the background, archiving data, and recognizing the value that...
