Techniques are described for providing error management capabilities for disaster recovery operations. In an embodiment, first user input is received that identifies a first error mode to assign to a particular step of a disaster recovery plan that includes a set of steps for performing a disaster recovery operation. In response to receiving the first user input, the particular step is associated with the first error mode. In response to determining that an error occurred while processing the particular step of the disaster recovery plan, the error mode that is associated with the particular step is determined. Error handling is performed for the particular step based, at least in part, on the error mode that is associated with the particular step of the disaster recovery plan.