Business · Continuity
Backup, failover and disaster recovery
A recovery plan with real numbers attached — how much data you can afford to lose, and how long you can afford to be down — then tested rather than assumed.
What this covers
- Setting an RPO and RTO per system, in plain numbers you agree to
- Backup design for servers, virtual machines, SAN and NAS, and Microsoft 365
- Off-site and immutable copies that ransomware cannot reach
- Array and host replication, failover and failback
- Restore testing — an actual restore, on a schedule, with the result written down
- A written recovery runbook so it does not all live in one person’s head
An untested backup is a hypothesis
Almost every business that loses data had backups. What they did not have was a restore anyone had performed recently. Jobs report success while silently skipping a database that is locked. Retention quietly rolls off the copy you needed. The only way to know is to restore something and watch it come back.
The Microsoft 365 gap catches people too. Microsoft protects its own infrastructure, not your data from your own users — a deleted mailbox or a ransomware-encrypted SharePoint library is yours to recover, and the default retention is shorter than most people assume.
Projects this covers
- Off-site replication to a second location
- Immutable backup targets that ransomware cannot alter
- Written DR runbook, tested twice a year
- Microsoft 365 backup covering the gap Microsoft does not
- RTO reduction projects — cutting recovery from days to hours
- Backup consolidation from several tools onto one
Not sure where to start?
Describe what is happening, or what you are planning. Estimates are free and the first conversation is with the engineer who would do the work — not a salesperson working from a script.
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