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Backup, Restore & Disaster Recovery Operations Lab

Recovery-focused infrastructure lab covering backup strategy, restore testing, runbooks and service-continuity scenarios.

BackupRestoreDisaster RecoveryRTORPORunbooks

Purpose

Demonstrate operational resilience and recovery capability.

Business scenario

A fictional business (lab scenario) must protect its systems and data against failure. This lab designs and tests backup and recovery for those systems.

Objectives

  • Design a backup strategy against defined RTO/RPO targets.
  • Perform and validate restore testing.
  • Author recovery runbooks.
  • Simulate service-continuity and failover scenarios.
  • Document recovery outcomes and gaps.

Environment & scope

  • Backup tooling (lab)
  • Protected workloads and data sets
  • Restore test procedures
  • Recovery runbooks

Interview & discussion questions

  • What is the difference between RTO and RPO, and how do they drive design?
  • Why is an untested backup not a reliable backup?
  • How would you prioritise systems during a recovery scenario?
  • What belongs in a good recovery runbook?
  • How do you balance backup cost against recovery requirements?

This project is currently marked PLANNED. Implementation details, evidence and documentation will be added here as the build progresses — nothing is shown as complete before it is.