Types of Disaster Recovery Plans

Virtualized Disaster Recovery Plan.

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With a virtual DR plan, your IT organization creates a replica of the entire IT infrastructure and stores it on an offsite Virtual Machine (VM). Since VMs are hardware independent, you do not need the same hardware as the primary site, so you can easily backup your systems and data to dissimilar hardware. When a disaster happens, you can failover IT operations to the offsite VM and recover from a disaster in just a few minutes.

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Network Disaster Recovery Plan

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A network disaster recovery plan helps your IT team respond to an unplanned interruption of network services during a disaster, including voice, data, internet, etc. The plan must include procedures for recovering an organization’s network operations, including local area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs), and wireless networks. An unplanned interruption of network services can range from performance degradation to a complete outage.

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan

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With this type of plan, your systems and data are backed up to a public cloud, that is located at least 150 miles from the primary site. When a disaster happens, IT can easily failover their operations to the secondary site and failback to the same or new hardware – even if that hardware is dissimilar. Public cloud DR services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be accessed from anywhere.