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...

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

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

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