Do not panic! You have a Disaster Recovery Plan, right❓
Whether you like it or not, your IT infrastructure is vulnerable. If you thought that making backups is enough to guarantee #businesscontinuity in the event of a disaster, you are wrong.
◾️ If something bad happens, how long will it take to recover my business data?
◾️ How will this affect my #business in the future?
◾️ How to resume operation after #disasterrecovery?
◾️ How much does it cost me to not have access to my critical data for some time?
If you haven't asked yourself these questions, then you've probably never heard of a Disaster Recovery Plan. Better not to take this issue lightly, because it is assumed that 90% of companies without DRP will fail after a disaster. Moreover, nearly half of the small businesses that have implemented DR strategies, have never tested it.
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Agenda
• What is Disaster Recovery & DRP?
• How to plan DR in five simple steps
• vProtect DR Strategies examples
• Live Demo
• Useful links
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Start with WHY!
• If something bad happens, how long will it take to recover my business data?
• How will this affect my business in the future?
• How to resume operation after disaster recovery?
• How much does it cost me to not have access to my critical data for some time?
Questions that need to be answered.
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What is Disaster Recovery & DRP?
„A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is a business plan that describes how work can be resumed quickly and
effectively after a disaster. Disaster recovery planning is just part of business continuity planning and applied
to aspects of an organization that rely on an IT infrastructure to function” - Technopedia
Business Continuity is a macro perspective while DRP, the micro.
Disaster Recovery is a form of security planning that allows a business to maintain or recover
infrastructure and systems following a disaster.
Disaster Recovery is a part of business continuity planning.
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What is Disaster Recovery & DRP?
„In most organizations, Disaster Recovery Planning is the quintessential complex, unfamiliar task.
Disasters happen so rarely that recovery operations are the opposite of routine.
What's more, the myriad interconnected data, application and other resources that must be
recovered after a disaster make recovery an exceptionally difficult and error-prone effort.”
2020 Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Guide - ResearchAndMarkets.com
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• List all your IT assets & their location.
• Analyze the attack scenario for each asset.
• Classify all data workloads and applications based on its importance.
• Design according to your recovery goals – recovery time objective (RTO)
& recovery point objective (RPO)
• Prepare an emergency communication strategy.
• People & they role in DRP.
#1 Build a plan ahead
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• Test your Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Don’t wait for a disaster, be prepared before ut happens.
• Test your plan regularly.
• Modify and upgrade a plan, if tests fail.
#4 Recovery Strategy
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• Assign a dedicated DR Team.
• Set a reposnsibilities.
• Regular training, how to properly execute DR.
#5 Disaster Recovery Team
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• Capacity: securing enough resources to scale as needed.
• Security: providing physical security to protect assets.
• Network infrastructure: including software components such as
firewalls and load balancers.
• Support: making available skilled technicians to perform
maintenance and to address issues.
• Bandwidth: planning suitable bandwidth for peak load.
• Facilities: ensuring physical infrastructure, including equipment and
power.
Cloud DR | DRaaS
Cloud providers allow to build a DR site
extremely easy, by providing:
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Automate policy assignment for VMs
Tags + Regex to simplify assign to the backup policies
vProtect use tags & regular
expressions to have your VM
protected
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Recovery plans (automated recovery of multiple deployments)
• Recovery plan consists of user defined rules.
• Each rule consists of:
- state – can be active or not,
- set of deployments
- optional schedules for periodic execution,
- restore settings:
• specific to the platform selected,
• last successful or last backup (any state, to
explicitely fail test if last backup is not there).