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Which Recovery Site Fits?

Each business can tolerate so much downtime and data loss. Pick the hot, warm or cold site that fits.

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About this interactive

The lesson compares the three on cost, time and data. Hot site: a whole duplicate, with live data, live servers and the database running. Failover is fast, with virtually no downtime and very little data loss. It is the most expensive, about twice the cost. Cold site: little or none of the equipment, or just the site planned out. It can take days to get equipment in place and restore the data, and data shipped there less often means more data lost. It is the least expensive. Warm site: in between. Some servers and the internet link are in place and copies of the data are shipped over, so recovery means restoring the data and starting the databases. Pick the cheapest site that still meets the need: the downtime and the data loss the business can accept.

What you'll learn

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+
3.4 Explain the importance of resilience and recovery in security architecture.
5.2 Explain elements of the risk management process.

Key terms

Hot Site
A fully operational duplicate facility with live systems and current data that can immediately assume workloads if the primary site fails, providing the fastest possible disaster recovery time.
Warm Site
A partially equipped recovery site with some infrastructure and recent data copies that requires additional setup before becoming operational, balancing cost and recovery speed.
Cold Site
A recovery site with little to no pre-installed equipment or live data that can take days to become operational but carries the lowest ongoing cost.
Recovery Time Objective
RTO
The maximum acceptable time to restore a system or service after a disruption.
Recovery Point Objective
RPO
The maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time, defining how far back data must be recoverable.

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