Which disaster recovery strategy is right for my organization? A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented process or set of procedure to recover and protect a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster. Before answering the question that forms the title of this article, let us consider the three disaster recovery strategies.
First, among others is the Cold Site. The cold site is the bare bones approach to disaster recovery. These facilities have the basic infrastructure needed to run a data center, such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), power and networking connectivity, but not much else. Cold sites are designed to provide coverage for long –term outages of the primary site, such as those caused by a building fire, hurricane or other major disaster that renders the primary site completely inoperable. If a disaster does occur, an organization must then acquire the hardware necessary to resume operation, build systems, install applications and load data from backup tapes. It should be no surprise at all that the recovery time for cold sites is measure in days or weeks rather than in hours.