Backups you have restored. Failover you have tested.
High-availability architecture and disaster recovery for production systems: multi-AZ and multi-site designs, backups with real restore tests, and failover drills on a schedule.
Every team has backups. Few have restored one under pressure. DR only counts if it has been tested.
High availability & disaster recovery, end to end.
RPO & RTO targets
Recovery objectives agreed per system, based on what downtime and data loss actually cost you.
High-availability design
Multi-AZ, multi-region or multi-site layouts, chosen by cost and risk, not by habit.
Backup strategy
Point-in-time recovery for databases, object-storage versioning and off-site copies.
Restore testing
Automated restores that prove backups work, every month.
Failover drills
Planned game days where we fail things on purpose and fix what breaks.
DR runbooks
Step-by-step recovery procedures your on-call can follow at 3 a.m.
Three steps, no big-bang cut-over.
Assess
What can fail, what it costs, and what you have today.
Design & build
HA layout, backups and replication set up as code.
Drill
Restore and failover tests, then a schedule to keep them honest.
Deliverables you keep.
- RPO/RTO matrix per system
- HA and DR architecture
- Automated backup and restore jobs
- Failover runbooks
- Drill reports
- Ongoing drill calendar
Tools we use here.
Start small, or hand it all over.
Assess
Read-only review, ranked plan in 5 days.
Build & hand over
Built in your account, then handed to your team.
Fully managed
We run it end to end, with an SLA.
Support
Senior help for your engineers.
Questions about High availability & disaster recovery.
Do we need multi-region?
Not always. Many teams get most of the benefit from multi-AZ plus tested backups at a fraction of the cost.
Can you cover private cloud and colocation?
Yes. We design DR across data centres, or between private cloud and a public cloud.
How often should we test restores?
Monthly for critical data, automated, with a full failover drill at least twice a year.
Can you run the drills for us?
Yes, as part of fully managed infrastructure or as a scheduled engagement.
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