Disaster Recovery Testing: What You Need To Know
Enterprise Storage Forum, Tuesday, May 9,2023
Disaster recovery refers to your enterprise's ability to respond and recover after an event such as a cyber attack or natural disaster. It means planning for the worst by increasing redundancy, working to eliminate single points of failure, and ensuring you have working backups to prevent disasters from disrupting your business continuity.
Most companies do or should have a disaster recovery plan in place, but that plan needs testing. Disaster recovery testing is a means of ensuring the process to restore data and applications to normal is functional and actionable.
A good disaster recovery plan should ensure that all data is recoverable so that no information is lost in the long term, minimize IT downtime, and plan for continuity so staff can keep operations running until everything is fully recovered and operational.