Imminent Disaster? Backup Plans Saving the Day


Backup & Disaster Recovery Plans

Continuity guaranteed: 3-2-1 strategy, immutable copies, service-level RPO/RTO and proven restores.


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Overview

We design and operate Backup & Disaster Recovery to ensure business continuity. We define per-service RPO and RTO, apply the 3-2-1 strategy with immutable and offsite copies, end-to-end encryption and frequent restore tests. Jobs are automated, integrity is verified and dashboards show success rates, copy windows and capacity to anticipate risk.

  • RPO/RTO governance and an application catalog.
  • 3-2-1 with immutability and an offline tier.
  • Proven restores and auditable reports.

We cover databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server), file systems, VMs and hypervisors (VMware, Proxmox), containers and orchestrators, cloud services (S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage), common SaaS and endpoints. We protect configs, keys and secrets. Copy windows and priorities follow SLAs.

We track job status and duration, throughput, dedupe and compression ratios, change rates, volume growth, last backup age, and retention and immutability compliance. We detect anomalies and forecast capacity and cost.

Alerts for job failures or degradation, RPO breach, capacity risk, immutability loss, ransomware signals and expiring certificates or credentials. Prioritized by business impact with clear escalation.

Incident response

  • P1

    Critical outage or malicious encryption. DR activation, stakeholder communication and continuous updates.

  • P2

    Partial failure or degradation. Targeted restore, controlled rollback and permanent corrective actions.

  • Post-mortem

    Actionable lessons, playbook improvements, extra tests and stronger preventive controls.

Each incident records restore evidence, real RPO/RTO and prevention tasks.

Self-healing

  • Automatic retries with backoff and repository switch on saturation.
  • Checksum validation and block repair where supported.
  • Metadata failover and catalog reindex to speed up restores.

Automation focused on availability and recovery with human control at key milestones.

Key capabilities

At least three copies on two media with one offsite or immutable, WORM retention, safe delete and least-privilege access.

Criticality matrix, targets per service, copy windows and compliance tracking.

Encryption in transit and at rest, key rotation and KMS with least-privilege access.

Sample and full restores, integrity verification and time measurement to refine procedures.

Secondary repositories, async replicas and proven failover with controlled fallback to primary.

Policies by regulation and data class, continuous audit and controlled disposal.

Detailed runbooks, dependency-based boot order, scheduled exercises and full documentation.

Status boards and monthly reports with success rates, restores, consumption and capacity forecast.

Operational KPIs

MetricTargetCurrentComment
Backup success rate>= 99.90%99.97%Monitoring and automated retries.
Restore testsWeeklyWeeklySample and full restores.
RPO critical data<= 15 min12 minFrequent copies and replicas.
RTO web service<= 60 min45 minProven DR orchestration.

Summary

Reliable backups, proven restores and a clear DR plan. Lower risk, controlled recovery times and audit-ready evidence. Ask for a guided restore test and get a prioritized improvement plan.

Validate your RPO and RTO with a guided exercise.
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