Disaster Recovery: Cold Standby

Author: CCa2z

Date: 2nd March 2015

A method of redundancy in which the secondary (i.e., backup) system is only called upon when the primary system fails. The system on cold standby receives scheduled data backups, but less frequently than a
warm standby. Cold standby systems are used for non¬critical applications or in cases where data is changed infrequently.