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