Disaster Recovery Plan

Write a disaster recovery plan for a service or system — covering RPO/RTO targets, failure scenario runbooks, backup and restore procedures, DR testing cadence, and communication templates. Use when asked to write a DR plan, document failover procedures, create recovery runbooks, define RTO/RPO targets, or prepare for a disaster recovery game day. Produces a full DR document with per-scenario recovery runbooks, backup validation procedures, testing schedule, and communication templates.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

What to give it

• Service name — and what it does (business function and technical role)
• Criticality tier — business impact of extended downtime (e.g. Tier 1 = revenue-critical, Tier 2 = ops impact, Tier 3 = internal only)
• Current infrastructure setup — cloud provider, regions/zones, deployment model (Kubernetes, ECS, VMs, serverless)
• RPO / RTO requirements — Recovery Point Objective (how much data loss is acceptable) and Recovery Time Objective (how long can it be down)
• Backup strategy — what is backed up, how often, where backups are stored, retention policy
• On-call contacts — names and contact details for the responder chain

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