Backup vs Disaster Recovery: They're NOT the Same Thing | Resilience Testing | Harness

Having backups doesn't mean you have disaster recovery. And that gap could kill your business.

Backups are just data snapshots stored safely for restoration when files get corrupted or deleted. Disaster recovery is your complete operational playbook for bringing back servers, applications, networks, and entire infrastructure after catastrophic failures.

You can restore every byte of data from backup and still watch your business stay offline for hours or days because you lack the recovery procedures, failover systems, and tested runbooks to actually get operations running again.

Backup answers the question: can I get my data back? Disaster recovery answers: can my business survive and keep serving customers during a crisis?

One is a safety net. The other is a survival strategy. Know the difference before disaster strikes.

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