Establishing Baselines for Disaster Recovery
Establishing baselines is essential when it comes to assessing risk, managing disaster recovery, stopping loss, and so forth, no matter how big the database or how critical the application.
When formulating a disaster recovery plan, no matter that you are starting from scratch or taking over from another DBA, it is critical to fully understand the business plan and the application’s need for availability and service level. You thus need to establish the tolerance level for your enterprise or service to be without access to data and databases for a given time. In other words, how long do you have after a database goes offline, before the business begins to suffer serious harm? Many database or online transaction processing (OLTP) system clients do not understand their needs, so establishing a baseline is one of the most important exercises in a data center.
See Establishing Baselines for Disaster Recovery.
