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Disaster Recovery Runbook

Overview

This runbook provides procedures for disaster recovery scenarios.

Recovery Procedures

Complete System Recovery

  1. Infrastructure Setup
  2. Provision new infrastructure
  3. Configure networking and security
  4. Install required software

  5. Database Recovery

  6. Restore from latest backup
  7. Verify data integrity
  8. Update connection strings

  9. Storage Recovery

  10. Restore S3 buckets
  11. Verify file integrity
  12. Update storage configurations

  13. Application Recovery

  14. Deploy application code
  15. Configure environment variables
  16. Start services

  17. Verification

  18. Run health checks
  19. Test critical functionality
  20. Monitor system performance

Partial Recovery

  • Identify affected components
  • Restore specific services
  • Verify functionality
  • Update monitoring

Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)

  • Critical Systems: 4 hours
  • Non-Critical Systems: 24 hours
  • Full Recovery: 48 hours

Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)

  • Database: 1 hour
  • Storage: 4 hours
  • Configuration: 24 hours