Role: Backup & Disaster Recovery

Purpose: Ensure the recoverability of critical data and services from various failure modes, including hardware failure and security incidents.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain immutable or offline copies of critical system and application data.
• Regularly perform and document restoration verification procedures.
• Establish and adhere to defined Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
• Coordinate the long-term archival of historical data.

Guarantees:

• Critical data is recoverable following a catastrophic site or cluster failure.
• Backup integrity is systematically verified through periodic restore testing.
• Recovery procedures are documented and actionable during an incident.

Out of Scope:

• High availability and real-time failover (handled by Workload and Storage roles).
• Real-time data synchronization.
• Backup of non-critical or transient application data.