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DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan)
A disaster recovery plan (DRP) sets out how operations come back online after a serious failure, and how long that takes. It sets two targets the business signs off on: how much data you can afford to lose (RPO) and how fast service has to be back (RTO).
Resilience that keeps the business running when something unexpected hits.
Resilience that keeps the business running when something unexpected hits.
How to ensure business continuity?
Business continuity is no longer optional. A natural disaster, a hardware failure or a ransomware attack can stop operations and do real damage.
We build disaster recovery plans so your company knows what to do when something breaks
Why Integrity-UX is the right partner
Integrity-UX builds the DRP from an assessment of the risks specific to your business, and the result is a plan written for that environment. A generic plan tends to fail in exactly the scenario nobody mapped.
Understand the difference between backup and disaster recovery.
Risk Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment
We assess the risks specific to your business and name the threats that can stop your operation.
A recovery plan built for your environment
We build the plan around your critical systems, your sensitive data and the way your operation actually runs.
The technology that does the recovery
Backup environments, data replication and recovery infrastructure, sized so the service comes back in the agreed-upon time.
Regular Testing and Continuous Updates
We test the plan on a schedule and update it as your infrastructure and the threats change.
Training and Awareness
We train the team so everyone knows their part before the day it is needed.
Build your disaster recovery plan, with firm deadlines and regular testing.
The question is not whether the environment will fail, it is how long it takes to come back. Integrity-UX reviews your company's recovery plan and shows the gap between the recovery time the business needs and what the infrastructure delivers today.
Some of the companies we work with
Benefits
Risk analysis
An assessment of the risks specific to your business, and of the threats that can stop the operation.
Agreed-upon RTO and RPO
The plan sets how much data you can afford to lose and how fast service has to be back. Two numbers the business signs off on.
Tailored plan
The plan is built from your own environment. A generic plan usually fails in the scenario nobody mapped.
Testing the plan
The DRP can be exercised at set intervals, on a schedule set with the client. A plan that has never been tested only gets validated when it is already too late.
Microsoft Partner
An Azure-certified team, with Microsoft cloud recovery services behind the plan.
Plan documentation
Every recovery scenario written down, so that running it does not depend on memory.
Frequently asked questions about DRP
The plan document is only part of it. The delivery includes the inventory of systems and the dependencies between them, the RTO and RPO values each business area has signed off on, the recovery order, step-by-step procedures for whoever will run them, named owners and deputies, and the test script. A plan with no executable procedure is an audit document, not a recovery plan.
Not necessarily, and this is the decision that weighs most on cost. The strategy varies with each system's RTO: it ranges from recovering out of backup, which is the cheapest and the slowest, to a standby environment already running, which is the opposite. Most companies use different strategies for different systems, because not everything has to come back at the same speed.
There are levels of testing, rising in realism and in risk. It starts with a tabletop review, where the owners walk through the plan without touching anything; then a test in an isolated environment, which restores for real without affecting production; and finally a simulation with controlled switchover. The isolated test is the one that usually surfaces most of the problems, and it brings nothing down.
The business areas, without exception. RTO and RPO are not technical decisions: they answer how long the operation can stay down and how much data can be lost, and only the people accountable for the process can say. IT defines how to deliver the number, not which number is acceptable.
High availability keeps the service standing when a component fails, usually without the user noticing. A DRP is invoked when the whole environment is lost, and then there is a declared outage and a recovery plan. One works in seconds, the other in hours. They are complementary, and having one does not excuse the other.
By scheduled review and by trigger. The periodic review checks whether the systems, the dependencies and the owners are still the same. The trigger is any significant change of architecture: a migration, a change of vendor, a new system or one retired. An outdated plan fails at exactly the moment it is needed.
It has to, and that scenario has its own requirements. In a physical disaster the most recent copy will do; in an attack it may already be compromised, and you need to go back to a point before the infection. That changes the retention requirement and makes an immutable or offline copy part of the plan, not a detail of the backup.
Yes, and it is the most common case today. The plan has to handle the dependencies between what is on premises and what is in the cloud, which is where the surprises usually are: a cloud system that depends on a local authentication service, for instance, does not come back on its own.
Both, depending on what is needed. Integrity-UX can design and document the plan and also run the periodic review and the test cycles.
With an assessment of the current environment, which surveys systems, dependencies and single points of failure. That is what produces the scope, the effort and the timeline by phase.