Developing and Documenting a Disaster Recovery Plan

DR plans usually exist in people’s heads until you actually need one - at which point tribal knowledge doesn’t cut it. Time to actually write one down.

Turn the ad hoc recovery knowledge into a structured plan: recovery point/time objectives, failover procedures, who does what during an incident. A document so someone who wasn’t in the room when the environment was built can still execute a recovery under pressure.

The plan becomes the runbook you actually use during the DR exercises, so it pays for itself immediately.