Disaster Recovery Strats Flashcards
What point in time do you want your data recovered to
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Shorter point in time recovery costs more
RPO
In the event of a failure, how fast do you want to fail over? How much time can the business afford to lose
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
If something happens to your production system, restore that system from a backup. Slowest option
Backup and Restore
Recovery where standby system not consuming the same level of as main instances. Second Slowest
Pilot Light
Scaled-down version of your production system already running in another availability zone/Region. Second Fastest
Warm Standby
Two sites, both active and with traffic split between, in an outage the other site takes the load. Fastest
Active/Active Failover