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title: "Discussion on \"Your Disaster Recovery Plan Is a Hypothesis Until You've Tested It\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"Your Disaster Recovery Plan Is a Hypothesis Until You've Tested It\". Availability is the number you measure; resilience is the design that delivers it. The two recovery targets every DR plan rests on (RTO and RPO), why an untested plan can't be trusted, and a payments processor that went from 4-hour manual recovery to 6 minutes by rehearsing failure until it became routine."
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# [Your Disaster Recovery Plan Is a Hypothesis Until You've Tested It](https://sherdil-cloud.hashnode.dev/dr-plan-hypothesis-until-tested?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Availability is the number you measure; resilience is the design that delivers it. The two recovery targets every DR plan rests on (RTO and RPO), why an untested plan can't be trusted, and a payments processor that went from 4-hour manual recovery to 6 minutes by rehearsing failure until it became routine.

Sep 19 · 5 min read · sherdil-cloud.hashnode.dev  
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