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Disaster Recovery Plan

Implement comprehensive disaster recovery strategy with backup sites, failover procedures, RTO/RPO targets, and regular DR drills.

Complexity: Complex | Duration: 30m+ | Category: Devops

Tags: infrastructure disaster-recovery failover business-continuity

Workflow Diagram​

Steps​

Step 1: RTO/RPO definition​

Agent: cloud

architect - Define recovery time and point objectives

Step 2: Backup site​

Agent: cloud

architect - Provision standby environment (hot, warm, or cold)

Step 3: Data replication​

Agent: database

architect - Configure cross-region database replication

Step 4: Failover mechanism​

Agent: devops

engineer - Implement DNS failover, load balancer failover

Step 5: Runbook creation​

Agent: devops

engineer - Document step-by-step recovery procedures

Step 6: Automated failover​

Agent: devops

engineer - Configure automated failover for critical services

Step 7: DR testing​

Agent: devops

engineer - Conduct quarterly DR drills

Step 8: Post​

Agent: mortem

cloud-architect - Document lessons learned from drills

Usage​

To execute this workflow:

/workflow devops/disaster-recovery-plan.workflow

See other workflows in this category for related automation patterns.