Recovery priorities should follow business outcomes
What to restore first is a business question that keeps being answered by technical convenience.
The easiest system to bring back is rarely the one the organisation needs most, and without an agreed order the sequence is set by whoever is shouting or whatever is simplest. Establishing the order in advance, against what the business actually cannot operate without, is the point of the planning exercise.
More on Resilience
- High availability and disaster recovery solve different problemsA part, or the place
- A dependency can be more critical than the applicationThe lighter side goes down
- Manual workarounds have capacity limitsThe pipe gets narrower
- Resilience includes people and suppliersThe shelf runs out
- Failover can fail if never exercisedThe day it is asked
- Graceful degradation preserves the important partDrop the ballast