Disaster recovery, RTO, and RPO

Disaster recovery is a comprehensive strategy that’s designed to ensure an organization’s resilience in the face of unexpected, disruptive events, such as natural disasters, cyberattacks, or system failures. It involves the planning, policies, procedures, and technologies necessary to quickly and effectively restore critical IT systems, data, and operations to a functional state. A well-implemented disaster recovery plan enables businesses to minimize downtime, data loss, and financial impact, helping them maintain business continuity, protect their reputation, and swiftly recover from adversities, ultimately safeguarding their long-term success.

Every organization incorporates disaster recovery to varying degrees. Some opt for periodic backups or snapshots, while others invest in creating failover replicas of their production environment. Although failover replicas offer increased resilience, they come at the expense of doubling infrastructure...