2: Types of Alternate Recovery Site Flashcards
Alternate Recovery Site
• Warm site • Cold site • hot site • mirrored site • Mobile site • Reciprocal arrangement
What are already available at mirrored site
- Space and basic infrastructure
- All applications
- Updated data back-up
Are they any further requirement needed for resumption of service a mirrored site?
Hardly anything
What are already available at hot site
- Space and basic infrastructure
* All applications
Are they any further requirement needed for resumption of service a hot site?
• Updated data back-up
What are already available at warm site
- Space and basic infrastructure
* Few IT applications
Are they any further requirement needed for resumption of service a warm site?
- Required IT applications
* Updated data back-up
What are already available at cold site
• Space and basic infrastructure
Are they any further requirement needed for resumption of service a cold site?
- Required IT applications
* Updated data back-up
Mobile site
processing facilities mounted on a transportable vehicle and kept ready to be delivered
Reciprocal Agreement
are the agreements wherein two organizations (mostly having similar processing) agree to help each other in case of emergency.
Reciprocal agreements are the least expensive because they usually rely on agreement between two firms. However, they are the least reliable
Most expensive for maintaining alternate recovery site
Mirror site
Least expensive for maintaining alternate recovery site
Reciprocal Agreement
Fastest recovery time
Mirrored site is the first, then hot site
Slowest recovery time
Cold site
what recovery is recommended for CRITICAL system
Mirrored/ hot sites are appropriate option.
what recovery is recommended for NON CRITICAL system
Cold site is the appropriate option
