MENG Kun, LI Mingxing, DING Jianwen, ZHOU Huachun
Accepted: 2026-01-16
With the in-depth digital transformation of enterprises, more and more enterprises have migrated their core businesses to the cloud. While the elastic scaling and "pay-as-you-go" features of cloud computing have significantly improved operational efficiency, risks such as natural disasters, cyberattacks, human operational errors, and hardware failures have also intensified. Once these risks occur, they will lead to cloud-based business interruptions and the loss of critical data, causing huge economic losses to enterprises. Therefore, Cloud Disaster Recovery(CDR)technology has become a core link in ensuring the stability of enterprises' information technology architectures and business continuity. CDR technology has gone through multiple stages of evolution, from early high-cost on-premises tape backups and self-built data centers, to gradual exploration combined with virtualization technology, and now to diversified disaster recovery solutions based on cloud computing. It has derived various business types such as cloud-based, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud, with obvious differences in technical index requirements such as RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) among different types. However, systematic sorting and integrated research on the CDR technology system in the current industry are still relatively insufficient. Based on this, this paper integrates the current development status of CDR, the research first sorts out the key nodes in its development history, clarifies the core concepts of backup and disaster tolerance, and typical application scenarios in finance, manufacturing, medical care, etc. Then, it focuses on the "two locations and three centers" architecture, a mainstream architecture, to deeply analyze the research progress of key technologies such as data synchronization, distributed consistency verification, and fault detection. Finally, it summarizes existing challenges such as heterogeneous cloud resource synchronization and cluster split-brain recovery, and points out future research directions such as intelligent fault prediction using AI, providing technical references for enterprises to formulate disaster recovery and cloud migration strategies.