Disaster Recovery & Backup
Automated backups, tested DR plans, and cross-region replication. Define your RTO/RPO targets and build resilience that actually works under pressure.
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Who Disaster Recovery & Backup is for
Automated backups, tested DR plans, and cross-region replication. Define your RTO/RPO targets and build resilience that actually works under pressure.
Teams whose backups have never been restored
The job reports success every night and nobody has taken that output and rebuilt a working system from it. A restore first attempted during an outage is a coin flip.
Companies with a recovery time nobody has agreed
Engineering assumes hours, the business assumes minutes, and the gap between them only appears on the worst day. Writing RTO and RPO down tells you what the infrastructure has to do.
Businesses whose contracts require a tested DR plan
An auditor or an enterprise customer asks for the runbook and the date of the last drill. Both have to exist as documents, and the drill has to have actually happened.
Teams that have already lost data once
The deletion, the failed disk or the encrypted volume has happened and the recovery was improvised. What usually follows is replication across regions and verification that runs without anyone remembering to start it.
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What Disaster Recovery & Backup Includes
How it goes
How we run this engagement
The same four steps on every engagement, whether it is a one-off project or an ongoing retainer.
Step 1
You describe the work
A written request, answered by a senior engineer within one working day
Step 2
Audit & Plan
Full review of current stack, written action plan (AI-powered stack analysis + risk mapping)
Step 3
Execute
Implementation, migration or ongoing management begins
Step 4
Monitor & Support
Continuous oversight, alerts, regular reports (AI-correlated alerts, zero noise)
Overview
About Disaster Recovery & Backup
Disaster recovery strategies with defined RTO/RPO targets, automated backup verification, and cross-region replication. Every plan includes documented failover procedures and quarterly DR drills - so your team follows a tested runbook, not a guessing game.
Disaster Recovery & Backup - Common Questions
RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is how quickly you need to be back online after a disaster. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is how much data loss you can tolerate - measured in time since the last backup. We define both targets with you and design the DR strategy to meet them.
We automate restore verification on a schedule. Backups are restored to isolated environments, validated for integrity, and the results are logged. You get proof that your backups are recoverable - not just proof that a backup job ran.
Yes. We configure cross-region and cross-cloud replication for databases, object storage, and critical state. The replication strategy depends on your RTO/RPO targets and budget - from asynchronous replication to active-active setups.
Yes. We plan and support quarterly disaster recovery drills where your team practices the failover procedure. Drills reveal gaps in runbooks, identify slow steps, and build confidence that the plan works when it matters.
We back up everything critical - databases, object storage, application state, configuration, secrets, and infrastructure definitions. The scope is defined during the initial assessment based on what your business cannot afford to lose.
Backups are kept where your production credentials cannot reach them: a separate account or project, write-once storage with object lock, and a retention policy that cannot be shortened without a second approval. Deletes are versioned, so a wrong command removes nothing permanently. That is the difference between having backups and having backups that survive the incident.
Us, on Disaster Recovery & Backup
Written for the problem rather than for the sale. Read one before you decide whether we know your stack.
How to Build a Backup You Have Actually Restored
A backup job that reports success is a receipt, not a guarantee. The line that shows up on almost every infrastructure audit is not missing backups, it is backups nobody has ever restored. This is the setup that turns one into the other: a weekly job that restores last night's copy into a scratch container, runs a real query against it, and pages you when the row count is wrong. Plus the failure modes that only surface on restore day, from missing roles to a dump that quietly left the large objects behind.
Read itServer & DevOps · 5 minHow to Back Up and Restore etcd Before You Need It
A verified etcd snapshot is the difference between a control plane you rebuild in twenty minutes and a cluster you reassemble from memory over a weekend. This walks through taking a snapshot on a self-managed cluster, proving the file is actually restorable rather than merely present, and bringing a cluster back that no longer comes up. It also covers the commands that moved between binaries in recent etcd releases, because the old ones are the ones everybody copies.
Read itServer & DevOps · 6 minHow to Restore One Table From a Full Cluster Backup
Somebody emptied one table and the rest of the database is still taking orders. Restoring the whole backup over production would throw away every write since the dump, to fix damage that lives in a single table. This is the side restore instead, with the format choice that decides whether selective restore is even possible, the pg_restore flags that behave differently from the pg_dump ones you know, and the foreign keys and sequences that turn a successful restore into a broken application an hour later.
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