planning for the worst There's a lot more to disaster recovery than making backups. Most of DR, in fact, is planning instead of code: knowing what you need to do when disaster strikes, how to do it, and who does it. Further complicating things, management and admins are fond of preparing for unlikely events while failing to prepare for probable outages at all. There's a lot more to disaster recovery than making backups. Most of DR, in fact, is planning instead of code: knowing what you need to do when disaster strikes, how to do it, and who does it. Further complicating things, management and admins are fond of preparing for unlikely events while failing to prepare for probable outages at all. This talk will outline how to make a disaster recovery plan, and some basic dos and don'ts of DR. Included: The three most common downtime causes Determining acceptable losses (and getting management to agree) Backup vs. Replication Planning for the unexpected Against Improvising (always have a Plan B) Public Cloud DR Other Dos and Don'ts When disaster strikes, it's too late to start planning. Do it now.