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Business continuity: test your recovery plan before you need it

An untested recovery plan is only a hypothesis. A few simple practices make it reliable.

GSS Infrastructure team Published on 4 min read

Diagram of disaster recovery and business continuity

Extended power outages, hardware failures, ransomware: the causes of disruption are many. The question is not whether an incident will happen, but how long the organisation can operate in degraded mode.

Set realistic objectives

For each service, define the acceptable downtime and tolerable data loss. These two values drive every technical choice.

Isolate backups

At least one backup copy should be offline or immutable so it can withstand an attack that encrypts the primary system.

Exercise regularly

Scheduled restores and failover exercises reveal forgotten dependencies and build the right reflexes within teams.

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