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Guidance for a True IT - Disaster Recovery

  • For a true DR, a recovery site should be outside of a blast radius this means if a primary site locate in Kigali a recovery site should be outside of Kigali
  • Distance between sites should not be ≤ 45 km.
  • Both Data centers (primary and recovery site) should be Active-Active.
  • Based on distance policy for a long distance replication should be asynchronous.
  • Maintenance and monitoring of infrastructure should be done regularly and to ensure a good performance, a target system should not be an old.
  • Go for cloud.

Common Mistakes

  • Lack of understanding of needs (Compliancy, Due Diligence, “Never Happen to
    Me”).
  • Never Getting Started
  • Inadequate planning
  • Failure to bring the business into the planning and testing of your recovery efforts