How to plan Disaster Recovery in a five simple steps
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The document outlines the importance of having a disaster recovery plan (DRP) for businesses, highlighting that many companies suffer significant losses due to lack of preparation for disasters. It provides a step-by-step guide for planning disaster recovery, emphasizing the need for asset assessment, recovery goals, testing of the plan, and team responsibilities. Additionally, it mentions the role of automation in recovery strategies and introduces vProtect as a tool for effective disaster recovery management.
How to plan Disaster Recovery in a five simple steps
- 1. INTRODUCTION www.storware.eu Do not panic! You have a Disaster Recovery Plan, right? www.storware.eu
- 2. www.storware.eu Agenda • What is Disaster Recovery & DRP? • How to plan DR in five simple steps • vProtect DR Strategies examples • Live Demo • Useful links
- 3. www.storware.eu of business without a disaster recovery plan will fall after a disaster. Source: Touche Ross 2017 90%
- 4. www.storware.eu On average, businesses lose over $100,000 per ransomware incident due to downtime and recovery costs. Source: CNN
- 5. www.storware.eu of small businesses have never tested their BDR plan. Source: Riverbank’s Annual BDR Survey 46%
- 6. www.storware.eu 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.
- 7. www.storware.eu 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.
- 8. www.storware.eu 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
- 10. www.storware.eu • 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
- 11. www.storware.eu #2 The 3-2-1 Backup Rule
- 12. www.storware.eu Automation is a key #3 Automation
- 14. www.storware.eu • 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
- 15. www.storware.eu • Assign a dedicated DR Team. • Set a reposnsibilities. • Regular training, how to properly execute DR. #5 Disaster Recovery Team
- 16. www.storware.eu Fight for your 2021 DR Budget
- 17. www.storware.eu • 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:
- 18. DR Strategies usage examples
- 20. www.storware.eu Automate policy assignment for VMs Tags + Regex to simplify assign to the backup policies vProtect use tags & regular expressions to have your VM protected
- 21. www.storware.eu 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).
- 22. www.storware.eu Recovery plans ON DEMAND disaster recovery – restore of multiple deployments SCHEDULED periodic test restore
- 23. www.storware.eu vProtect Cloud Object Storage usage • Store on the cold storage • AWS Glasier & Google Nearline Storage
- 25. www.storware.eu Start a vProtect journey for Free (10 VMs, Apps or deployments) https://storware.eu/licenses/vprotect/
- 26. www.storware.eu Start a vProtect journey for Free (10 VMs, Apps or deployments) https://storware.eu/licenses/vprotect/
- 31. www.storware.eu www.storware.eu e-mail: [email protected] mobile: +48 730 602 611 Leszno St. 8/44 01-192 Warsaw And The Backup Monsters