Can continuous data protection make disaster recovery testing easier?
Yes, continuous data protection can make disaster recovery testing easier. I see a lot of companies with pretty well-documented disaster recovery plans, but they’ve never actually tested their plan. A lot of people find out the hard way that “hope” is not a strategy. With CDP, testing can be carried out relatively quickly. So, it’s easy to know if that portion of your disaster recovery plan does or does not work. You are going to have the right CDP technology in place on the right systems. And, you’ll want to create a test environment, so there is no impact on production data. But, it’s all pretty straightforward. CDP isn’t going to get you better test results, but it can streamline the process. That could be a motivating factor in encouraging people to test their disaster recovery plan. What is the difference between real CDP and near CDP, and is one more appropriate for disaster recovery? Near CDP creates snapshots or shadow copies of data every so often and allows you to restore eve
