What you gain
A recovery plan you can trust before you're forced to use it
Defined recovery objectives. Clear recovery point and recovery time objectives for each system, so you know exactly how much data you could lose and how long recovery will take.
Offsite, redundant storage. Backups stored in a separate location from your production systems, protecting against site level failures like hardware loss, fire, or flooding.
Verified, tested restores. Restore procedures that are actually tested on a schedule, not backups that sit untouched until an emergency proves whether they work.
Business continuity coverage. A recovery plan that spans servers, databases, files, and core business systems, not just a single application or website.
Your backups look fine until the day you actually need them
- We found out our backup job had been silently failing for three weeks the same day our server crashed.
- Our only backup was sitting on a drive in the same building that flooded.
- Nobody has ever actually tested a restore, so we have no idea how long recovery would really take.
- We can back up files, but our database and business applications aren't part of any verifiable recovery plan.
A backup system only counts if it is monitored, stored offsite, and proven to restore under pressure. The measured risk with backups usually isn't that they never run, it's that a job can fail silently for weeks before anyone finds out, often the same day the server it was protecting actually crashes. We don't call a backup system finished until we've run a verifiable test restore and timed it, not just confirmed the job completed on schedule.
This service is scoped per engagement rather than sold in fixed tiers. Here's what's included.
- Defined recovery objectives. Clear recovery point and recovery time objectives for each system, so you know exactly how much data you could lose and how long recovery will take.
- Offsite, redundant storage. Backups stored in a separate location from your production systems, protecting against site level failures like hardware loss, fire, or flooding.
- Verified, tested restores. Restore procedures that are actually tested on a schedule, not backups that sit untouched until an emergency proves whether they work.
- Business continuity coverage. A recovery plan that spans servers, databases, files, and core business systems, not just a single application or website.
Delivery & Format
We run scheduled test restores to confirm backups actually work, monitor job completion and storage health, and adjust the plan as your systems and business needs change.
What's the difference between this and website backup?
Website backup covers your site's files and database. This service covers your broader business IT infrastructure, including servers, internal databases, file storage, and line of business applications.
What is a recovery point objective?
It's the maximum amount of data loss, measured in time, that your business can tolerate. A recovery point objective of four hours means backups run frequently enough that you'd never lose more than four hours of data.
What is a recovery time objective?
It's the target amount of time it should take to restore a system after a failure. We set this per system based on how critical it is to daily operations.
How do you know the backups will actually work when needed?
We run scheduled test restores on a defined cadence rather than assuming a completed backup job means a usable one. If a restore fails a test, we fix the underlying issue before it becomes a verifiable incident.
What happens during the Assess and define recovery targets phase?
We inventory your servers, databases, files, and business applications, then set recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives for each based on how critical they are to your operations.
What happens during Configure automated, redundant backups?
We set up scheduled backups across your critical systems with redundant, offsite storage separate from your primary infrastructure, so a single location failure cannot take out your data and your backups at once.
What happens during Test restores and monitor on an ongoing basis?
We run scheduled test restores to confirm backups actually work, monitor job completion and storage health, and adjust the plan as your systems and business needs change.
Why does offsite storage matter if we already back up locally?
Backups stored in the same location as production systems can be lost to the same event, hardware failure, fire, or flooding. Offsite, redundant storage protects against site level failures a local-only backup cannot survive.
What happens if a backup job fails silently?
A job can fail silently for weeks before anyone notices, often surfacing the same day the server it was protecting crashes. Monitoring job completion and storage health is built into the ongoing service specifically to catch that before it becomes a verifiable incident.
Do you cover databases and business applications, or just files?
The plan spans servers, databases, files, and core business systems, not just a single application or website, so a recovery covers the systems your business actually depends on.
How do you decide the recovery objectives for each system?
We inventory your servers, databases, files, and business applications, then set recovery point and recovery time objectives for each one based on how critical it is to your operations, not a single blanket target.
What does it mean for a backup to be 'proven', not just completed?
We don't call a backup system finished until we've run a verifiable test restore and timed it, rather than just confirming the job completed on schedule.
Can the recovery plan change as our systems grow?
Yes. Monitoring and test restores continue on an ongoing basis, and the plan is adjusted as your systems and business needs change rather than left static after setup.
What is the measured risk with backups that most businesses miss?
It usually isn't that backups never run. It's that a job can fail silently for weeks before anyone finds out, often the same day the server it was protecting actually crashes.
Is this a one time setup or an ongoing service?
Ongoing. Backups, monitoring, and scheduled test restores continue after initial setup so the recovery plan stays proven, not just configured once and left alone.
