Disaster Recovery Advisor
Encyclopedia
The Disaster Recovery Advisor (DRA or CC DRA) is a proprietary
disaster recovery
and high availability
management system from Symantec
. It is available for Windows
, AIX
, Solaris, Linux
, and HP-UX
. It offers vulnerability detection and optimization functionalities to complement disaster recovery testing and guarantee recovery point objective
and recovery time objective
.
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...
disaster recovery
Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity...
and high availability
High availability
High availability is a system design approach and associated service implementation that ensures a prearranged level of operational performance will be met during a contractual measurement period....
management system from Symantec
Symantec
Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
. It is available for Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
, AIX
AIX operating system
AIX AIX AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced "a i ex" is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms...
, Solaris, Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, and HP-UX
HP-UX
HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...
. It offers vulnerability detection and optimization functionalities to complement disaster recovery testing and guarantee recovery point objective
Recovery point objective
-Recovery point objective :When computers used for normal "production" business services are affected by a "Major Incident" that cannot be fixed quickly, then the Information Technology Service Continuity Plan is performed, by the ITSC recovery team...
and recovery time objective
Recovery Time Objective
The recovery time objective is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity....
.
See also
- Veritas Cluster ServerVeritas Cluster ServerVeritas Cluster Server is a High-availability cluster software, for Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows computer systems, created by Veritas Software...
- Veritas Storage FoundationVeritas Storage FoundationVeritas Storage Foundation, previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, combines Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System to provide a complete solution for online storage management...
- Veritas Volume Replicator
- Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)