Disaster Recovery

Size-Tier Scope

This variant scales the operating pattern for organizations under 100 people. Keep the controls lightweight, favor owner-led approvals, and introduce automation only where it removes recurring manual work without adding governance overhead.

Purpose

Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BCP) ensure that an enterprise application can survive and recover from failures ranging from a single component outage to a full data center loss. For ERP systems on ERP•AI, DR is not a theoretical exercise -- it is a contractual, regulatory, and operational necessity. Builders and operators need this skill whenever they are:

• Defining recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) that align with business criticality
• Designing backup strategies that protect against data loss, corruption, and ransomware
• Architecting multi-region or multi-zone failover for high-availability requirements
• Building and testing failover procedures for databases, applications, and integrations
• Creating business continuity plans that keep critical processes running during outages
• Meeting compliance requirements for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or industry-specific regulations
• Designing incident communication protocols for internal teams, customers, and regulators
• Planning recovery procedures that restore service in the correct order with verified integrity