Because disaster shouldn’t mean disarray—turning chaos into control with pre-defined recovery scenarios for all your AWS resources.
When Backups Aren’t Enough: Meet Recovery Scenarios
We’ve all been there: late at night, eyes half closed, doing yet another backup—wishing disaster recovery could be as simple as hitting a single button. You know the feeling: one missed step and a “routine failover” turns into an hour-long IT fire drill. Enter recovery scenarios in N2W—a feature so helpful, it practically coaches your resources back to health.
Backups and archives? They’re great, but when the wolves (read: outages, accidental deletions, or entire region failures) come knocking, you want a plan that works for everything at once. Recovery scenarios are the secret weapon, letting you orchestrate a flawless, multi-resource recovery—no more painstakingly clicking through one resource at a time.
The Backbone of Bulletproof Recovery
Let’s start with the basics: before you can recover, you must protect. In the N2W universe, that means setting up a backup policy with your preferred backup schedule (midnight, because you like your recoveries drama-free and your sleep uninterrupted). Decide how many backups you want, toggle disaster recovery on, and—just for kicks—choose a totally different AWS region (say, Ohio) so you’re covered even if your entire main region takes a nap.
Run the policy. Watch as the backup monitor does its magic, showing both your regular and disaster recovery jobs progress from “in progress” to “all done.” Breathing easier? You should be.
Orchestrated Recovery
Now for the main event: recovery scenarios. This is where N2W flexes its muscles. Instead of the traditional approach—painstakingly recovering resources one by one—recovery scenarios let you predefine an entire failover in just a few clicks.
Want to failover those North Virginia instances to Ohio? Name your scenario (“Failover Ohio”), pick the right policy, and set the destination region. Next, explicitly select which resources to restore. Whether it’s two mission-critical servers or dozens of interconnected services, choose them all at once.
But, wait—there’s more. You can tweak how each instance recovers: change the instance type (because sometimes you want a beefier failover), adjust networking settings, or get granular with boot order. Maybe one server needs to come online before another—it’s all in your hands.
Dry Runs & Compliance
Ever needed proof your recovery plan actually works? N2W has you covered with “Dry Run”—a test drive that simulates the entire recovery scenario, without touching your production workloads. Each backup is logged and available for a dry run, so you can validate your preparedness any time.
Finished your dry run? Download the log, wave it at the auditors (with a smug smile), and rest easy knowing your compliance boxes are checked and your disaster recovery plan actually works. When disaster really strikes, all it takes is a single click—“Run Scenario”—and your environment springs to life in its new home.
One Button, Total Control: The Joy of Effortless Recovery
In the world of cloud disasters, the best plan is one you never have to think about until you need it. With N2W recovery scenarios, you no longer dread recoveries. Define, test, tweak, and, when needed, execute a flawless failover across entire sets of AWS resources in a single step.
Sleep soundly, IT pros. Your recovery playbook just went from chaos to choreography, and disaster recovery is now as simple as clicking “Run.” The future of failover? Fabulous, indeed.
