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Complete business impact analysis and service tiering
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Disaster Recovery Architecture
Design recovery capabilities around business impact, dependency mapping, data protection and tested orchestration.
Objective: Create achievable RTO and RPO commitments supported by evidence rather than assumptions.
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Business context and requirements
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Define RTO, RPO, minimum service and data-loss tolerance
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Map application, identity, network, data and supplier dependencies
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Architecture and design decisions
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Choose backup, replication, standby and multi-region patterns
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Design recovery sequencing, orchestration and DNS transition
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Protect recovery credentials, keys and management access
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Security, cost and operating model
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Separate backup security from production administrative control
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Model capacity, storage, transfer and test-environment costs
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Define crisis roles, communications and recovery governance
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Validation, resilience and evolution
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Run component, application and regional recovery exercises
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Validate restored data, security controls and business transactions
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Record recovery evidence and remediate timing or dependency gaps
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