IT Disaster Recovery Plan Generator

Generates detailed IT disaster recovery plans with RTO/RPO targets, failover procedures, backup strategies, communication plans, testing schedules, and cost...

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IT Disaster Recovery Plan Generator

Build production-ready disaster recovery plans that actually get followed when things break.

What This Does

Generates a complete DR plan covering infrastructure, data, applications, and communications. Output includes RTO/RPO targets, failover procedures, testing schedules, and cost modeling.

When to Use

Building DR documentation for compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA)
After an outage exposed gaps in your recovery process
Onboarding a new infrastructure team
Annual DR plan review and update

How to Use

Tell the agent what you need. Be specific about your stack and requirements.

Quick Start

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Generate a disaster recovery plan for our SaaS platform. Stack: AWS (us-east-1 primary, eu-west-1 secondary), PostgreSQL RDS, Redis, S3. RTO target: 4 hours. RPO target: 1 hour. Team size: 8 engineers.

Inputs to Provide

Infrastructure: Cloud provider, regions, key services
Data stores: Databases, object storage, message queues
RTO target: Maximum acceptable downtime
RPO target: Maximum acceptable data loss
Team size: Who's available during an incident
Compliance: Which frameworks apply (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS)
Budget tier: Startup ($5K-$15K/yr) | Growth ($15K-$50K/yr) | Enterprise ($50K+/yr)

Output Structure

1. Risk Assessment Matrix

Threat	Likelihood (1-5)	Impact (1-5)	Risk Score	Mitigation
Region outage	2	5	10	Multi-region active-active
Database corruption	3	5	15	Point-in-time recovery + cross-region replicas
Ransomware	3	5	15	Immutable backups + air-gapped copies
DNS failure	2	4	8	Multiple DNS providers
Key person unavailable	4	3	12	Runbook documentation + cross-training

2. Recovery Tier Classification

Tier 1 — Critical (RTO < 1hr)

Authentication service
Payment processing
Core API

Tier 2 — Important (RTO < 4hr)

Admin dashboard
Reporting
Email delivery

Tier 3 — Standard (RTO < 24hr)

Analytics
Internal tools
Dev/staging environments

3. Failover Procedures

For each Tier 1 service, generate step-by-step runbooks:

Pre-failover health checks
DNS/load balancer switchover steps
Data consistency verification
Post-failover smoke tests
Rollback procedure if failover fails

4. Backup Strategy

Data Store	Backup Frequency	Retention	Location	Recovery Test Frequency
Primary DB	Continuous (WAL)	30 days	Cross-region	Monthly
Object Storage	Cross-region replication	Indefinite	Secondary region	Quarterly
Config/Secrets	On change	90 days	Encrypted S3 + local	Monthly

5. Communication Plan

Internal escalation: PagerDuty/Opsgenie chain with backup contacts
Status page: Auto-update triggers at incident declaration
Customer notification: Templates for P1-P4 severity levels
Executive briefing: 15-min cadence during P1, hourly during P2

6. Testing Schedule

Test Type	Frequency	Scope	Duration
Tabletop exercise	Quarterly	Full team walkthrough	2 hours
Component failover	Monthly	Individual service	1 hour
Full DR simulation	Annually	Complete failover	4-8 hours
Backup restore	Monthly	Random data store	1 hour

7. Cost Model

Break down DR spending by category:

Infrastructure (standby capacity, cross-region replication)
Tooling (monitoring, alerting, backup software)
Testing (engineer hours, cloud costs during drills)
Training (onboarding, annual refreshers)

Benchmark: DR typically costs 15-25% of primary infrastructure spend. Companies without DR plans face average downtime costs of $5,600/minute.

Compliance Mapping

Map each DR control to framework requirements:

SOC 2 CC7.4/CC7.5: Incident response and recovery
ISO 27001 A.17: Information security continuity
HIPAA §164.308(a)(7): Contingency plan
PCI DSS 12.10: Incident response plan

Rules

Always include specific commands and CLI examples (not just "failover the database")
Include estimated time for each step in runbooks
Flag single points of failure explicitly
Default to the 3-2-1 backup rule: 3 copies, 2 media types, 1 offsite
Include cost estimates in USD for each recommendation
Never assume unlimited budget — tier recommendations by cost

Next Steps

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