Patent ID: 7992031

Claim:
A method for automated disaster recovery (DR) planning, said method comprising: receiving disaster recovery requirements and a target environment configuration from a user, wherein the target environment configuration defines a target computing environment in which at least one disaster recovery (DR) plan is to be deployed, and wherein the disaster recovery requirements defines objectives of said at least one DR plan; a processor of a computer system ranging the disaster recovery requirements in at least one element, wherein each element of said at least one element is a unit risk in the target computing environment to protect with said at least one DR plan, wherein said each element comprises replication properties that are required to prevent said each element; restricting candidate replication technologies for said each element from replication technologies stored in a knowledgebase coupled to the computer system, wherein a resource configuration of the candidate replication technologies match the target environment configuration, and wherein replication properties of the candidate replication technologies match replication properties of said each element; generating said at least one DR plan with candidate replication technologies for all elements based on best practice recipes and past deployment instances stored in the knowledgebase; and presenting, to the user, an output comprising said at least one DR plan from said generating.