ITDrill publishes one tool: the disaster recovery drill planner. This page explains what kind of tool it is, so that you know what to expect before you use it.
The drill planner
The drill planner asks a short set of questions about your current recovery practice (how recently you restored anything as a test, whether you have written recovery targets and a runbook, whether your backups are protected from production credentials, what you can restore into) and a list of the systems you want in scope. From those answers it produces a plan to run: which kind of exercise to try first, a suggested scenario, the roles you need, success criteria, the evidence to capture, a suggested cadence, and the order in which to restore the systems you named.
Every recommendation comes with the reason for it, and the plan can be copied as plain text or printed.
What kind of tool it is
It is a rule-based questionnaire. The rules are written down in the planner’s script and in the articles it links to: nothing in it is a model of your environment, and nothing in it is learned from your data. The same answers always produce the same plan.
What it is not
It does not connect to your systems, scan them, inspect your backups or run a restore. It does not measure a recovery time or a recovery point. Its output is not a certified plan, not an audit result and not evidence that any drill, backup validation or restore test has happened. The restore order it suggests is inferred from the names you type, so it is a starting point to correct against your real dependencies. No data leaves your browser.
Related material
The planner’s reasoning follows the articles on designing a recovery drill, restore testing and RTO and RPO. A printable run-sheet for the day of an exercise is on the drill checklist page. Everything published on the site is listed in the resource index.