SERVICES / Backup & Disaster Recovery
A backup is a beginning.
A successful backup job does not prove recoverability. I help define what must survive a failure, where the copies live, and how to validate a restored system.
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Businesses with a critical application, a single-server dependency, or backups that have never been exercised end to end.
- Backups exist, but nobody has tested a restore.
- The only copy is on the same server.
- The business has no documented recovery sequence.
What you receive.
- Recovery requirements and dependency review
- Backup and retention design
- Restore implementation and integrity checks
- Recorded recovery exercise
- Recovery runbook with observed limits
A clear way through.
- Agree data-loss and downtime objectives with the business.
- Review backup isolation, encryption, access, and retention.
- Build a repeatable restore into a clean environment.
- Validate data and application behavior, record timings, and identify remaining gaps.
Scope before implementation.
Recovery objectives are requirements to test, not promises inferred from a lab. A measured exercise applies to that scenario and its documented conditions.
Every engagement begins with deliverables, access requirements, acceptance checks, and responsibilities agreed in writing. Work outside that scope is discussed before it becomes a change.
Engineering you can inspect.
From a single Proxmox VM to a repeatable AWS rebuild and verified restore. The NORTHSTAR case study documents the implementation, checks, and limits of an executed synthetic lab.
Is an S3 copy enough for disaster recovery?
It can be one component. You still need access, application configuration, dependencies, a restore procedure, and evidence that the recovered workload works.
Connected services.
Let’s define the right scope.
Tell me about the system and the outcome you need.