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Recovery site

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

An alternate location for processing information (and possibly conducting business) in an emergency. Usually distinguished as "hot" sites that are fully configured centers with compatible computer equipment and "cold" sites that are operational computer centers without the computer equipment.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Physical85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Internal70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

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Variants

plural
Recovery sites
possessive
Recovery site's
pluralpossessive
Recovery sites'