Resilience
Backup & DR Strategies
Backup strategy involves regularly creating and storing copies of data to ensure its availability and recoverability in case of data loss or disaster.
Backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategies are crucial for ensuring the availability and continuity of an organization's data and applications in the event of a disaster or other unexpected event. Here are a few key concepts and strategies to consider when developing a backup and DR plan.
What's involved
How we approach Backup & DR Strategies
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Backup
This involves creating regular copies of important data and applications, and storing them in a separate location or on different media than the primary data. This can include creating backups of files, databases, virtual machines, and other data.
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Data Archiving
This is the process of moving older, less frequently accessed data to another medium or location, such as tape or cloud storage. This can help reduce the amount of data that needs to be backed up and stored, and also increase the speed of backup and restore operations.
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Backup Retention
This refers to how long backups are kept before being overwritten or deleted. This can be based on a specific number of days or on a specific backup schedule.
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Backup Frequency
This refers to how often backups are created. This can vary based on the type of data and the organization's needs, but can be as frequent as every hour, every day, or every week.
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Disaster Recovery
This involves having a plan in place to restore data and systems in the event of a disaster or other unexpected event. This can include having a disaster recovery site set up, replicating data to multiple locations, and having a plan in place for testing and recovery.
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Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
This is a broader term that includes Disaster Recovery, but also addresses all the other aspects of an organization that could be impacted by a disaster, such as communication, human resources and operations.
How we work Eight steps from
Eight steps from
assessment to
steady state
The same sequence on every engagement, so you always know what happens next.
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Assessment
A senior engineer reviews your infrastructure, pipelines, cloud spend and security posture.
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Plan
Findings become a written plan — risks, waste and quick wins, in plain English.
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Prioritize
We agree what gets fixed first, based on impact rather than what is easiest to start.
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Execution
Pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and hardening land while your team keeps shipping.
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Test
Every change is validated in a real environment before it touches production.
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Optimization
Right-sizing, spend governance and performance tuning once the baseline is stable.
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Operate
We run it day to day — incidents, patching and releases — with a named engineer on call.
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Monitor
Continuous metrics, logs and alerting, with monthly cost and performance reporting.
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