Part 3 will cover Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), DR Plan & Testing, and Managed Backup Service for Disaster Recovery.

Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective

Both are ways to measure the levels of disruption an organization is able to tolerate until it sustains critical damage.

RTO is how much time a business has for restoring its essential processes to an acceptable service level after a disaster occurs and avoiding unacceptable consequences related to the disruption.

RPO is the point in time to which data and systems are required be recovered after the occurrence of a disaster.

The determination of RTO and RPO is one of the initial steps your team will take in creating a backup and disaster recovery strategy. Subsequently, you will work on selecting an effective disaster recovery solution able to handle both RTO and RPO.

DR Plan & Testing

Regarding a DR plan’s implementation, it will be essential to retain a data backup service that will meet your RPO requirements by providing the tools and processes for restoring data swiftly. Rapid data restoration is required for meeting RTO objectives.

Determining the effectiveness of a DR plan will require ongoing testing that verifies it meets your RTO and RPO requirements.

Managed Backup Service for Disaster Recovery

Recovering rapidly from a disaster will require selecting and implementing the right backup solution. Thus, a managed backup service can be a crucial aspect of your backup and DR plan, allowing your company’s backup process to be handled automatically.

Managed backups offer several benefits. Retaining a service will conserve your company’s time and effort that would otherwise be needed for performing backups. It would also increase flexibility and scalability since backup capacity will not be limited by your company’s infrastructure. The cloud will be utilized for backing up and recovering data in the event of a disaster.

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