Case study · Business continuity

Rapid Disaster Recovery

The difference between having a backup and being able to operate again.

The situation

A business depended on a single critical server with nightly backups to a device on the same network, and no defined recovery time. Nobody had ever restored from those backups, and the recovery plan amounted to sourcing replacement hardware after a failure.

01

Architecture change

  • Image-level backup with frequent recovery points
  • Local virtualization capable of booting a protected image
  • Immutable offsite copies outside the domain
  • Automated boot verification of images
  • Written recovery order across dependent systems
  • Scheduled drills with documented results
02

Honest expectations

Booting a recent image locally can return a critical server to service in roughly five minutes depending on architecture, failure type, configuration and recovery method. Large database restores and full site loss take substantially longer, and we document which systems fall into which category.

03

Result pattern

Recovery moved from an undefined multi-day exercise to a rehearsed procedure with a known timeline, and leadership could state a recovery objective instead of hoping.

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