Chapter 36

Disaster Recovery

Scott R. Ellis, and Lauren Collins     kCura Corporation, Chicago, IL, United States

Abstract

Since the environment is ever changing in an organization, the disaster recovery (DR) environment must also be continuously replicated and tested at a pace determined by the team who works on the DR plan. It must be periodically audited. Roles must be revised and reassigned as needed. The science of a DR plan, the exact nuts and bolts of the many technologies used, and approaches to take is beyond the scope of this chapter. For example, just the DR options for SQL server applications represent a very large body of work. Failover technologies, software for Internet protocol and phone rerouting, and other data synchronization technologies ...

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