Performance-based questions

Business continuity design

1. 1

   Recovery site type

   • Cold site
   • Warm site
   • Hot site
2. 2

   Data capture frequency

   • Nightly full backup
   • Continuous replication plus snapshots every 15 minutes
   • Weekly full backup
3. 3

   Protection against ransomware encrypting production

   • Real-time replication to the recovery site
   • Immutable or offline point-in-time backups
   • Increasing replication frequency
4. 4

   Recovery site location

   • Adjacent building on the same campus
   • Different region, outside the primary site's risk zone
   • Same data hall, separate rack
5. 5

   Validating the recovery site without risking production

   • Tabletop discussion
   • Parallel processing test
   • Assume it works because it is configured
6. 6

   Power continuity design

   • Generator only
   • UPS to bridge until the generator starts
   • UPS only, sized for 48 hours