Disaster recovery is a planned approach aimed at ensuring business continuity by quickly restoring an organization's IT systems and data after a large-scale outage or disaster. Events such as fire, flood, a prolonged power outage, a large-scale cyber attack or a critical hardware failure can bring unprepared businesses to a standstill for days, or even permanently. At Gelecek İnternet, we offer disaster recovery solutions so that businesses are resilient against such crises.

The Difference Between Disaster Recovery and Backup

Backup means keeping a copy of your data; disaster recovery is the entire plan for bringing all your business processes (servers, applications and network, along with the data) back online after a disaster. Backup is an important part of disaster recovery but is not sufficient on its own.

Two Critical Concepts: RTO and RPO

• RTO (Recovery Time Objective): Specifies how quickly systems must become operational again after a disaster. In other words, it is the maximum acceptable downtime.
• RPO (Recovery Point Objective): Specifies how much data loss can be tolerated. For example, a one-hour RPO means at most one hour's worth of data can be lost.

These two objectives determine how fast and how frequent your disaster recovery plan needs to be.

Steps of a Disaster Recovery Plan

1. Risk analysis: Identify the possible disaster scenarios that threaten your business.
2. Prioritizing critical systems: Determine which systems and data must be restored first.
3. Redundant infrastructure: Replicate your data and systems in a geographically different location.
4. Writing recovery procedures: Document who will take which steps and when.
5. Testing and drills: Regularly rehearse the plan to ensure it will work in a real crisis.

The Importance of Testing the Plan

A disaster recovery plan that looks perfect on paper can fail in a real crisis if it has never been tested. Regular drills reveal the gaps in the plan and ensure your team knows what to do in a crisis. A comprehensive test at least once a year is recommended.

The Value of Business Continuity

A prolonged outage can lead to severe consequences such as loss of revenue, shaken customer trust and legal liabilities. A well-prepared disaster recovery plan minimizes these losses by getting your business back on its feet quickly even under the most difficult conditions. This is also a message of trust you give to your customers and business partners.

To create a disaster recovery plan for your business, determine your RTO/RPO objectives, or get information about our redundant infrastructure solutions, you can contact us at destek@gelecekint.com.