Copying data somewhere is not continuity. Recovery depends on what was protected, how isolated it is, how quickly it can be restored and what the business needs first.
We work backward from the outage: what must come back first, where the clean copy lives, what credentials are required, what hardware or cloud capacity is available and how long the business can tolerate being down.
Servers, workstations, cloud data, identity, network configuration and vendor access all matter during a real incident.
A continuity plan needs more than retention numbers. It needs an operational path back to normal.
Good continuity planning reduces improvisation during the worst possible day. The objective is a recovery sequence people can execute, not a dashboard that merely says backups are green.