Understanding Disaster Recovery in Azure

Azure Disaster Recovery (DR) helps ensure business continuity by replicating your Azure resources to a secondary region. It simplifies recovery and reduces potential downtime.

Key Concepts

Common DR strategies include:

• **Backup & Restore:** Creating backups and restoring them to a secondary location.
• Pilot Light & Warm Standby: Smaller and more cost effective for frequent testing and quick failover.
• Geo-Replication: replicating data across different geographic locations.

Steps to Start Disaster Recovery

1. Identify Critical Applications: Determine what your business depends on.

2. Define Recovery Time Objective (RTO): How long can your application be down?

3. Establish Recovery Point Objective (RPO): How much data loss is acceptable?

4. Implement DR Strategy: Select the appropriate solution for your needs.

5. Test & Validate: Regularly test your DR plan.

Resources

Learn more: Azure Disaster Recovery

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