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The OCI Disaster Recovery Blueprint

Cross region and cross availability domain resilience on OCI without doubling the bill, and a testing discipline that makes the plan survive a real incident.

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Summary

What this paper covers.

Most disaster recovery plans fail in one of two directions. Either the organisation pays for a full second copy of everything and quietly doubles its infrastructure bill, or it relies on a recovery document that has never been rehearsed and discovers during a real incident that the plan was fiction. This blueprint is the method we use to land between those failures, matching each business process to an honest recovery tier and then building the cheapest OCI architecture that genuinely meets it.

The paper walks through the OCI building blocks of resilience, compares Data Guard, Autonomous cross region replication, and backup based recovery for the database layer, sets Full Stack DR against infrastructure as code rebuild for everything above it, and prices the four classic patterns from backup restore to active active. It closes with the part most plans skip, a testing discipline that proves the recovery works before an incident proves it does not.

Inside

What is inside.

  • How to set RPO and RTO by business process, not by system, and why the difference matters.
  • The OCI resilience building blocks, regions, availability domains, and fault domains, and what each one actually protects against.
  • Database DR options compared, Data Guard, Autonomous cross region, and backup based recovery.
  • Full Stack DR and infrastructure as code rebuild for the application layer.
  • The four DR patterns, backup restore, pilot light, warm standby, and active active, priced honestly.
  • A testing discipline that turns a recovery document into a recovery capability.
Audience

Who it is for.

  • CIOs and heads of infrastructure who own the availability commitment and the budget behind it.
  • Architects designing cross region resilience on OCI for the first time or rebuilding it after a scare.
  • Operations leaders whose DR runbook has not been exercised in over a year.
  • Finance partners asked to fund a standby region and wondering what it should actually cost.

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Contents

Table of contents.

40%
average OCI spend reduction after optimization
500+
OCI engagements delivered
24/7/365
managed monitoring and support
20+
years combined Oracle experience

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