IT Disaster Recovery Plan Generator

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

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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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)

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