Is Your DR Plan Actually a Plan, or Just a Hope?

Most companies think they have Disaster Recovery handled.
A replica here, a nightly backup there, maybe an old failover test from 2019.

But here’s where it gets uncomfortable:
Most DR plans fail the moment something real happens.

Why?

Because “we have backups” is not a DR plan.
Because “we replicate everything” is not a DR plan.
Because no one remembers the last time you tested it.

A real DR plan answers three uncomfortable questions:

1. How fast can we get the business running again?
   (Not the servers, the business.)

2. How much data are we willing to lose?
   (Minutes? Hours? Days? Do you know?)

3. When was the last full, successful restore test?
   (Not a backup check - a real restore. On a real server.)

If you can’t answer all three without thinking…
you don’t have a DR plan.
You have a hope. (thanks Geoff Hiten)

The good news? Fixing it usually starts with one simple action:
Pick one production database and restore it somewhere today, to 3:39 pm two days ago.
Measure the time. Document the result.
Now you know your reality.

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SQL TidBit:

Point in time recovery for SQL Server databases requires either Full recovery model or Bulk-logged AND you must be backing up transaction logs.

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None. Go back something up 😉

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