Disaster recovery

Disaster recovery consists of the policies and procedures that describe how to recover or continue the technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster.

Business continuity is an overall plan to keep all aspects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptive events. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity, focusing on the technology systems that support business continuity.

Disaster recovery consists of well-defined strategies to back up the primary data center and restore its data to a secondary data center.

  • During normal operations, organizations use a live system. The backup programs run in the background to save environmental information and application data.
  • When the live system goes down, the backup system is restored from the backed up data.

The topics in this section provide information about the supported scenarios and configuration for disaster recovery in a production environment that includes IBM® Business Process Manager and IBM Business Monitor.

Parent topic: Troubleshooting