Tips, Tricks, and Traps Lesson 5: Why a Second Site Isn’t Enough

Why a second site alone isn't enough for real recovery. Discover the essential components that transform backup into genuine business continuity.

Why a Second Site Isn’t Enough

A second site sounds like a perfect solution for disaster recovery — until it’s not.
This episode explores the pitfalls of treating a second site as a silver bullet—and why genuine recovery is about architecture, isolation, and orchestration.

 What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why geographic distance matters — and how close is too close
• The risk of shared power grids and network backbones
• Why orchestrated failover beats passive backup
• How to build a second site that’s truly recovery-ready, not just a new address

 Real recovery means thinking through how and where you restart your business — not just storing your data somewhere else

Explore how DataBank can help you build a recovery-ready architecture: Our Disaster Recovery Services.

Resilience You Can Rely On—Without the Overhead

DataBank DRaaS gives IT leaders the confidence to recover fast—without building it all yourself.

Whether you’re facing a cyberattack, outage, or natural disaster, our Disaster Recovery as a Service protects your critical infrastructure with tailored RTOs/RPOs, real engineering support, and seamless failover. You get near-active/active recovery at a fraction of the cost of maintaining a secondary data center.