Success Story
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Protect & comply
Backups that restore. DR that has been tested.
The unglamorous discipline of being ready for the day you hope never comes, and statistically will. We design backup and disaster-recovery so restore is a procedure you've run, not a theory in a binder.
Sounds like
"We have backups. We're not totally sure they work."
What it looks like
You might recognize one of these.
Most DR conversations start after a scare: a delete that almost stuck, a restore that took too long, or an auditor who asked for the last successful test date.
You've never restored the important one
Nightly jobs are green. Nobody has pulled a full database or a whole VM back in anger.
RTO is a guess
Leadership thinks you're back in four hours. The last restore took two days and a vendor ticket.
The DR site is a rumor
There's a second location, or a cloud account, that hasn't failed over since it was built.
Ransomware is the new question
Immutable copies, offline copies, and a clean-room restore path, or just hope the same NAS isn't encrypted too.
Why it's hard
A backup job is not a recovery plan.
Success on the backup report only means bytes landed somewhere. Recovery is a different skill: order of operations, dependencies, and time under pressure.
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Restore order is the real design
DNS, identity, databases, then apps. Get the order wrong and a "successful restore" still isn't a business.
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The clock is shorter than the runbook
If you've never timed it, you don't have an RTO. You have optimism.
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Copies rot and people leave
Retention, encryption keys, and the person who knew the tape robot all change. Untested DR quietly dies.
How we approach it
Design the restore. Then run it.
We start from what has to come back, and how fast, then build backup and failover that can actually meet those numbers.
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Name what "recovered" means
Which systems, how fresh, how fast, who declares a disaster. RPO and RTO as numbers, not adjectives.
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Build backups that match those numbers
Scope, retention, immutability, and offsite copies that stay restorable.
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Write the failover and restore path
Who does what, in what order, including the boring dependencies.
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Test it on a schedule
Restore a database. Fail a site. Time it. Fix the runbook. Repeat.
What you walk away with
A plan you've already practiced.
✓
Restores that have been done
Not just jobs that completed.
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RPO and RTO you can stand behind
Measured, not guessed.
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A runbook people can follow at 2 a.m.
Including who to call and what to leave alone.
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A test cadence
So the plan doesn't rot between audits.
Adjacent challenges
Often part of the same conversation
Challenge · Protect & comply
Security & Compliance
Hardening, audit response, patch management, and the controls that match what your industry actually requires. From SOC 2 to HIPAA to "we just want to stop being scared of an audit."
Read moreChallenge · Protect & comply
Data Sovereignty
When your data has to live in a specific country, Canada, the EU, somewhere your customers or regulators require. We architect, host, and run Linux infrastructure that stays put.
Read moreChallenge · Build & migrate
Infrastructure Migrations
Moving workloads off old platforms, cleanly, with the data intact and the change window respected. AWS to VMware, on-prem to cloud, one Linux distribution to another. We've done the trip before.
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Not sure the backups would actually come back?
Tell us what you can't lose and how fast it has to return. 30 minutes, no obligation, we'll tell you whether the current setup would make it.