Episode 27 — Disaster Recovery Components: Backups, Failover, Runbooks, and Recovery Checks
This episode covers the building blocks of a workable disaster recovery capability, including backups, replication, failover planning, documented runbooks, and validation steps that confirm systems are truly restored. You will learn how different backup types and storage choices influence recovery speed and reliability, and why integrity checks are critical before trusting restored data. We will discuss failover concepts such as hot, warm, and cold approaches in practical terms, emphasizing what each implies for cost, complexity, and recovery time. You will practice identifying which component is missing in scenarios where recovery fails, such as incomplete documentation, untested backups, missing credentials, or dependencies that were overlooked. Real-world examples will include restoring a database to a consistent point, verifying application connectivity after failover, and ensuring security controls—like access restrictions and logging—are still in place after recovery to avoid turning an outage into a security incident. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
