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