Creating a Website Disaster Recovery Plan: Rapid Restores from Cold Backups
When a critical production failure strikes, panicked improvisations cost hours of downtime. A predefined incident response playbook restores operations swiftly.
1. Defining RTO and RPO
Recovery Time Objective (RTO): The maximum acceptable duration your website can remain offline (e.g. < 30 minutes).
Recovery Point Objective (RPO): The maximum age of data that can be lost (e.g. < 2 hours with automated snapshots).
2. The 4-Step Incident Response Protocol
1. Isolate the affected node. 2. Spin up a clean standby instance from verified cold backups. 3. Update DNS routing. 4. Conduct a root-cause forensic review.
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