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Disaster recovery

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, 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 a database saved at a certain moment so that the data can be brought back after a failure, a mistake or an attack.
  • failoverSwitching work from a failed primary database server to a standby or replica so that the application can keep running.
  • 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 database system so that it keeps working with very little downtime, even if a server, disk or data center fails.
  • 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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