Strategix

Disaster recovery has a documentation problem.

Most organisations have a DR plan. It lives in a folder. It looks thorough. And it has never been tested under real pressure with the actual people who'd have to execute it at 3am.

Here's the uncomfortable truth: when something major fails, the plan doesn't recover your business. People do. The plan is just a tool in their hands.

Which means resilience is as much about your team as your technology:
👍Do the people who'd run the recovery actually know the steps — or just know the document exists?
👍When you last tested recovery, did you test the technology, or did you test the humans making decisions under stress?
👍Is recovery knowledge concentrated in one person who might be on leave when it matters?

Immutable backups, tested failover, and proper DRaaS all matter enormously. But they exist to support human judgement in a crisis, not replace it.

The best resilience strategy assumes a real person will be making real decisions, tired and under pressure — and is built to support them.

When did your team last rehearse recovery, not just document it?