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IT Disaster Recovery FAQs
Learn how IT Disaster Recovery planning can help you prepare for and recover from IT disruptions.
Preparing for and Recovering from IT Disruptions
Explore key IT Disaster Recovery questions to understand how to protect critical systems, reduce downtime, and ensure quick recovery after an IT incident.
IT Disaster Recovery FAQs
Disaster recovery (DR) is an organization’s method of regaining access and functionality to its IT infrastructure after a disruptive event.
IT disaster recovery (ITDR) is an overall process of identifying and putting in place the most cost effective and time efficient disaster recovery plans for a business’s IT requirements.
An IT disaster recovery plan is a document that outlines how an IT system will be recovering from an infrastructure/application service disruption.
Disaster recovery (DR) focuses on IT infrastructure and data recovery, whereas business continuity (BC) encompasses a broader scope, ensuring the continuation of all essential business functions beyond just IT systems. Both are crucial parts of a comprehensive approach to managing risk and maintaining operations in the face of disruptions.
A recovery point objective (RPO) measures back in time to when an organization’s data was preserved in a usable format, usually to the most recent backup.
A recovery time objective (RTO) is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process, application, and/or vendor service must be available after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in continuity.