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Overview
The Disaster Recovery Design deals with the technical solution and processes required to handle a catastrophic event that impacts the information environment. The cost/benefit of the system is a key input to this process, as it is quite possible that an alternative system may not be used as part of the Disaster Recovery Plan. In many cases the disaster recovery solution for an information platform involves rolling back to a test environment; advances in the redundancy built into both hardware and software has helped lessen some of the risk factors in this area although true catastrophic risks require sophisticated solutions and often significant cost.
Example 1 - Disaster Recovery Design Strategy for a Data Center - Phase 1
Listed below are example Disaster Recovery Design Strategy for a Data Center:
Delivery Phases for Enhanced Disaster Recovery
The following phases depict the long-term (five year) approach to achieving the desired end state while providing interim enhanced disaster recovery capabilities along the way. Illustrated below is Phase 1.
Phase 1
The goal of this phase is to achieve short-term improvements in enterprise disaster recovery capabilities while working out the details and planning for the long-range strategy.
- Establish a Web/Windows platform and applications recovery process in NorthStar to be a redundant production site for the ABC application hosted in EastStar
- Perform a minimal buildout of the sytsem to create a Cold Recovery Site that can be used to quick-ship equipment in the case of a major site or systems failure
- Perform detailed application inventory and create application recovery objective categories for each
- Conduct detailed design and specification of the environments, systems, resources and timing involved in implementing subsequent phases of the Data Center Disaster Recovery Strategy
Establish short-term DR capability
A minimal buildout of the system is expedited to establish a cold recovery site for the enterprise. establishes a redundant production site for ABC.
Post Phase 1 Disaster Recovery Capabilities
As a result of completing Phase 1, ABC will have achieved the following disaster recovery capabilities:
- A redundant production site for the Allstate.com environment in EastStar will be established and operational
- An interim Cold Recovery Site will be established to allow a quick response of systems and technical resources to address unexpected outages
- Backing up and vaulting of data from Open Production Systems is improved and enables the ability to enhance recovery times for those systems
- Primary recovery methods for Mainframes and AS/400s remain unchanged
- Existing recovery methods for most Open Systems remain unchanged
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