# disaster-recovery

A skill for disaster recovery planning: RTO and RPO targets, replication strategies, failover drills. Useful when you need a continuity plan on paper.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 367 installs · ★ 1177
- Author: devops-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/compliance/continuity/disaster-recovery/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/disaster-recovery

## What it does

The skill breaks recovery down into concrete steps. It ships a template for RTO and RPO metrics with the factors behind them: replication lag, application warm-up time, DNS propagation. Services get sorted into tiers, from tier 1 with a minutes-long window down to tier 4 with a day of slack.

A separate section compares four strategies: backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site active-active. Each one lists rough RTO and RPO, a cost order, and the AWS services involved — cross-region RDS replicas, S3 replication, Route53 health checks, Global Accelerator. There are commands for creating a cross-region read replica, an Aurora global cluster, and failover routing records.

Everything is tied to AWS: the commands and config samples target that stack, so another cloud means rewriting the templates. Cross-region replication needs a KMS key in the target region, and DNS failover leans on health checks — skip those and nothing switches over on its own.

## Requirements
- Works with: AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill disaster-recovery -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/disaster-recovery/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/disaster-recovery/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill disaster-recovery -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/disaster-recovery/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill disaster-recovery -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/disaster-recovery/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills disaster-recovery
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/disaster-recovery/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill disaster-recovery -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --path compliance/continuity/disaster-recovery
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/disaster-recovery/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill disaster-recovery -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/compliance/continuity/disaster-recovery/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- set RTO and RPO targets per service tier
- pick between warm standby and pilot light on a budget
- stand up a cross-region RDS read replica
- run a failover drill and record the outcome
- prepare a continuity plan for SOC 2 or ISO 27001

## Example prompts
- Help me define RTO and RPO for our auth API and payment service
- Compare warm standby and pilot light for our AWS stack and tell me which idles cheaper
- Write a checklist for a full failover drill to the secondary region

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: disaster-recovery
description: Implement disaster recovery strategies and runbooks. Configure RPO/RTO targets and failover procedures. Use when planning for business continuity.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: devops-skills
  version: "1.0"
---

# Disaster Recovery

Implement disaster recovery strategies including RTO/RPO planning, AWS cross-region failover patterns, DR testing procedures, and automated failover scripts.

## When to Use

- Defining RTO and RPO targets for critical systems
- Designing multi-region or multi-cloud disaster recovery architectures
- Implementing automated failover and failback procedures
- Conducting DR tests (tabletop, component, full failover)
- Meeting compliance requirements for contingency planning (SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 27001)

## RTO/RPO Planning

```yaml
recovery_metrics:
  RTO:
    definition: "Recovery Time Objective - maximum acceptable downtime"
    measurement: "From incident declaration to service restoration"
    factors:
      - Failover automation maturity
      - Data replication lag
      - DNS propagation time
      - Application warm-up time
      - Verification procedures

  RPO:
    definition: "Recovery Point Objective - maximum acceptable data loss"
    measurement: "Time gap between last good backup and the incident"
    factors:
      - Backup frequency
      - Replication method (sync vs. async)
      - Transaction log shipping interval
      - Cross-region replication lag

service_tier_targets:
  tier_1_critical:
    examples: "Authentication, payment processing, core API"
    rto: "< 15 minutes"
    rpo: "< 1 minute (near-zero)"
    strategy: "Multi-site active-active or warm standby"
    replication: "Synchronous or near-synchronous"
    testing: "Quarterly failover test"

  tier_2_essential:
    examples: "Customer dashboards, reporting, notifications"
    rto: "< 1 hour"
    rpo: "< 15 minutes"
    strategy: "Warm standby or pilot light"
    replication: "Asynchronous with short interval"
    testing: "Semi-annual failover test"

  tier_3_standard:
    examples: "Internal tools, analytics, batch processing"
    rto: "< 4 hours"
    rpo: "< 1 hour"
    strategy: "Pilot light or backup and restore"
    replication: "Periodic snapshots"
    testing: "Annual failover test"

  tier_4_non_essential:
    examples: "Development environments, documentation sites"
    rto: "< 24 hours"
    rpo: "< 24 hours"
    strategy: "Backup and restore"
    replication: "Daily backups"
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