IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Troubleshooting and support > Disaster recovery
Overview of disaster recovery
An information technology (IT) infrastructure must be designed to secure data integrity and to ensure the continuity of business operations in the event of an unexpected disruption.
Business continuity is an overall plan to keep all aspects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptive events. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity, focusing on the technology systems that support business continuity.
Disaster recovery consists of well-defined strategies to back up the primary data center and restore its data to a secondary data center.
- During normal operations, customers use a live system. The backup programs run in the background to save environmental information and application data.
- When the live system goes down, the backup system is restored from the backed up data. Customers can use the system again.
- Disaster recovery concepts
When planning for disaster recovery, consider the topology of the production environment, the types of data, the scope of the recovery, and the plans for data consistency.- Disaster recovery procedures
From the perspective of IBM BPM and IBM Business Monitor, disaster recovery means that the production environment can be restored to the secondary data center through a well-defined backup method.