Business continuity planning starts with an analysis and identification of critical and non-critical factors for incident recovery. As mentioned above, this analysis should be done at an enterprise level first, as this will define the priority of planning for Exasol business continuity in the context of your organization's complete ecosystem.
The priority of Exasol in your overall continuity plan will be defined by how you use the data. Specifically, the more operational importance the data kept in Exasol has, the faster you will need to have the database up and running in the event of an incident. For example, if you use Exasol data to make immediate operational decisions multiple times per day, the higher the priority Exasol will have in your business continuity plan. Conversely, if the data is only accessed periodically, such as once a week, to provide non-critical reports, Exasol will have a lower priority in your continuity plan
This analysis is important, because the cost and complexity of your business continuity plan for Exasol directly depends on how fast you need to recover it in the event of an outage.
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The first step is to familiarize yourself with the general terminology and timeline concepts commonly used in business continuity planning. To learn more, see Terminology and timeline.
The next step is to establish the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). These two factors affect the cost and complexity of your business continuity plan and will also impact other planning considerations, such as the required storage space required and the backup strategy. To learn more, see RPO and RTO impact on sizing.
You can then choose a solution that best fits your business continuity requirements. To learn more, see Dual Data Center solutions and Synchronous Dual Data Center (SDDC).
