Disaster Recovery

Recovery Goals

RTO & RPO

Recovery Time Objective (RTO): 4 hours

• Maximum time to restore services

• From incident start to full functionality

• For 99% of scenarios

Recovery Point Objective (RPO): 5 minutes

• Maximum acceptable data loss

• Continuous database replication

• For all customer data

Disaster Recovery Strategy

Multi-Region Setup

Primary Site

• Azure West Europe (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Active deployment across 3 availability zones

• Real-time monitoring

DR Site

• Azure North Europe (Ireland)

• Warm standby (pre-provisioned)

• Real-time data replication

• 100% within the EU

Automatic Protection

Availability Zone Failure

• Automatic failover to other zones

• Impact: Minimal (seconds)

• RTO: < 5 minuten, RPO: 0

Regional Failure

• Manual failover to DR region

• RTO: 4 hours, RPO: 5 minutes

Backup Strategy

Database Backups

Frequency & Retention

• Continuous backups every 5 minutes

• Point-in-time restore: 35 days

• Long-term backups: Weekly up to 10 years

• AES-256 encryption

• Geo-redundant within the EU

Validation

• Monthly restore tests

• Data integrity verification

• Documented test results