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Disaster recovery

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

nounCommon term

In cloud computing & devops, disaster recovery means: The plans, tools and processes for bringing systems and data back after a major event, such as losing a whole data center or region.

In Turkish: felaket kurtarma, olağanüstü durum kurtarma, DR

How it is used

Shortened to DR. Two key targets are RTO (recovery time objective: how quickly you must be back) and RPO (recovery point objective: how much recent data you can afford to lose). Teams run DR drills to test the plan.

Example sentences

  1. Our disaster recovery plan says we must be back online in another region within four hours.

  2. During the disaster recovery drill, we found that two services had no backups at all.

Common collocations

  • disaster recovery plan
  • DR site
  • disaster recovery drill
  • RTO and RPO
  • backupA copy of data kept separately so it can be restored if the original is lost, damaged, deleted by mistake or encrypted by an attacker.
  • failoverSwitching automatically or manually to a standby system, such as a database replica or a second region, when the main one fails.
  • regionA geographic area where a cloud provider has a group of data centers, such as Frankfurt or Ireland. You choose the region where your resources run.
  • high availabilityDesigning a system so that it stays up almost all the time, with no single part whose failure can stop the whole service.
  • snapshotA copy of a disk, volume or database exactly as it was at one moment in time, which can be used to restore it or create a new copy.

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