Disaster Recovery Readiness Assessment
Evaluate your readiness across DR plan currency, RPO/RTO targets, failover procedures, recovery infrastructure, and testing history. No account access required.
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Disaster Recovery Readiness Assessment
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Disaster Recovery Readiness Assessment
Work through DR plan currency, RPO/RTO targets, failover procedures, recovery infrastructure readiness, and testing history to evaluate your disaster recovery readiness.
What This Assessment Evaluates
Five Dimensions of Disaster Recovery Readiness
Area
What the tool evaluates
DR Plan Currency
Whether a disaster recovery plan exists in writing and reflects your current infrastructure — not a prior environment.
RPO/RTO Targets
Whether recovery point and recovery time targets are explicitly defined per system, not assumed informally.
Failover Procedures
Whether the specific steps to fail over critical systems are documented in enough detail to execute under pressure.
Recovery Infrastructure
Whether a recovery site or environment actually exists and has the capacity to run production workloads.
Testing History
Whether failover has actually been exercised — a full test, not just a plan review.
DR Plan Currency
Whether a disaster recovery plan exists in writing and reflects your current infrastructure — not a prior environment.
RPO/RTO Targets
Whether recovery point and recovery time targets are explicitly defined per system, not assumed informally.
Failover Procedures
Whether the specific steps to fail over critical systems are documented in enough detail to execute under pressure.
Recovery Infrastructure
Whether a recovery site or environment actually exists and has the capacity to run production workloads.
Testing History
Whether failover has actually been exercised — a full test, not just a plan review.
Understanding Your Results
Distinct From — But Related To — Business Continuity
This assessment is scoped to the technical discipline of restoring IT systems (disaster recovery), not the broader organizational capability to keep the business operating during a disruption (business continuity). If gaps here point to unclear recovery roles, vendor dependencies, or communication planning, the Business Continuity Planner covers that organizational layer.
FAQ
Common Questions
What is a full DR test and why does it matter more than a tabletop review?
A full DR test actually exercises failover of critical systems to your recovery environment, rather than just discussing the plan on paper. It is the only way to validate, with real evidence, that your procedures, infrastructure, and RTO/RPO targets actually work together — tabletop reviews are valuable but cannot substitute for it.
How is this different from the RPO/RTO Calculator?
The RPO/RTO Calculator helps you determine what your recovery targets should be based on business tolerance for data loss and downtime. This assessment evaluates whether your existing DR plan, infrastructure, and testing history actually support meeting whatever targets you have set.
Does a strong result here mean recovery is guaranteed?
No. This assessment evaluates whether the plan, infrastructure, and testing discipline that recoverability depends on are in place — it cannot confirm that a specific future recovery will succeed. A full DR test remains the only direct evidence of that.
Is anything I enter here saved or transmitted?
No. Your answers are processed in your browser to generate the results shown on this page and are not stored or transmitted unless you separately choose to request an emailed copy.
Related Guidance
A documented continuity plan that had never been tested — and what happened when recovery time objectives were finally validated.
The full guide behind this tool.
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Operational Support
Need help closing your disaster recovery gaps?
IT KORR can help you build tested failover procedures and recovery infrastructure that actually meets your RPO/RTO targets.
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