Backup And Disaster Recovery
Skill Verified ActivePlan and run backups, set recovery objectives, and run disaster recovery drills. Use this skill when defining RPO/RTO targets, designing backup architecture, deciding what to back up and how often, planning for full-region or platform outages, or running a restoration drill. Triggers on backup, restore, RPO, RTO, disaster recovery, DR, business continuity, what if the database is gone, what if our hosting goes down, recovery drill, ransomware planning. Also triggers when an incident reveals a gap in restoration capability.
To guide users in comprehensively planning and preparing for data loss and system outages, ensuring business continuity through robust backup strategies and disaster recovery procedures.
Features
- Defines RPO and RTO targets
- Structures disaster recovery planning
- Provides a step-by-step workflow for backup and DR
- Documents common failure patterns and prevention strategies
- Offers a detailed restore runbook template
Use Cases
- Setting up backups for a new system
- Reviewing and validating backup architecture
- Planning for ransomware, data corruption, or insider threats
- Running disaster recovery drills
Non-Goals
- Active incident response
- Routine deploy rollbacks
- Code or content versioning
- Routine database snapshots (use this skill to set them up; routine review goes in monitoring)
Installation
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
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