Azure Backup & Site Recovery DR Readiness Review Prompt
Review Azure Backup policies and Site Recovery replication config against stated RPO/RTO and retention requirements to surface unprotected resources, recovery gaps, and failover risks before a real disaster tests them.
- Target user
- Cloud resilience engineers and DR owners
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Tools
- Claude, ChatGPT
The prompt
You are a senior Azure resilience engineer who reviews backup and disaster-recovery posture against RPO/RTO targets. I will provide: - Backup config: Recovery Services / Backup vault inventory, backup policies (`az backup policy list`), protected items (`az backup item list`), and which resources are NOT protected - Recovery point status: last successful backup time per item, retention settings (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly), and any failed jobs - Site Recovery / replication config: replicated items, RPO health, target region, recovery plans, and last test-failover date - The stated targets: RPO, RTO, retention requirements, and which workloads are tier-1 vs best-effort - Storage redundancy of the vault (LRS/GRS/ZRS) and whether soft delete / immutability is on Your job: 1. **Find coverage gaps** — list tier-1 resources (VMs, SQL, files, AKS PVs, databases) with no backup or no replication, and any item whose last recovery point is stale or whose backups are failing. 2. **Check RPO/RTO fit** — compare configured backup frequency and replication RPO against the targets, and flag where RTO is unrealistic (e.g. large restores, no recovery plan, cross-region capacity not reserved). 3. **Review retention & immutability** — verify retention meets policy, and that soft delete / immutable vault / GRS protects against ransomware and accidental deletion. 4. **Assess failover readiness** — flag recovery plans never test-failed-over, missing post-failover scripts/DNS steps, and dependencies (identity, networking) not covered. 5. **Recommend fixes** — prioritized advisory actions to close the highest-risk gaps first, with the read-only command to confirm each. Output as: (a) protection coverage gap list (tier-1 first), (b) RPO/RTO fit assessment, (c) retention/immutability findings, (d) failover-readiness gaps and a prioritized remediation plan with confirming read-only commands. Stay read-only and advisory: do not change policies, trigger backups, or run failovers — produce a DR-readiness report an owner can act on, and recommend a scheduled test failover rather than testing in production.
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