Without those answers, any
backup plan is potentially invalid.
Remember that backup is only half the puzzle. Don??™t forget that you also must define
a plan for a recovery process. Don??™t stint on the recovery half of the puzzle. Backups are
usually done at leisure, without any undue stress. Recovery, on the other hand, occurs
when you??™re mostly likely to be under stress, and consequently when you most need a
well-defined and clear plan of action.
There are various interpretations of backup/recovery plans (BRPs). Some view them
as full disaster recovery plans; others see them as an internal IT function to define the
steps necessary to back up and restore a database. Both interpretations have flaws.
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True disaster recovery planning is a combination of an appropriate BRP along with
techniques used to mitigate the risk of any given disaster. A BRP is only a piece of disaster
recovery planning. One goal of disaster recovery planning should be that you??™ll never
need the process of recovery. You can develop a bulletproof (OK, bullet-slowing) BRP, but
your environment won??™t be better off if you??™re constantly invoking the BRP.
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