Backup, Recovery & Disaster Resilience
Backups protect the data and systems a business depends on. Recovery planning determines how those backups will be used when something goes wrong.
TDY IT helps you understand what is backed up, what may be missing, how recovery copies are protected, and whether current capabilities align with the business’s recovery priorities.
Know what is protected. Understand how recovery works. Prepare for disruption.
The systems, applications, configurations, and business data included in current backups.
Important technology or data that may be excluded, overlooked, or dependent on another recovery method.
Where copies are stored and whether appropriate isolation, immutability, retention, and access controls are in place.
The Recovery Point Objective (RPO), or acceptable data loss, and the Recovery Time Objective (RTO), or acceptable downtime.
The restoration order, technology dependencies, required access, responsible parties, vendors, and communication paths.
What has been restored or tested, what evidence exists, and where additional validation may be needed.
Recovery expectations should reflect business needs and be supported by actual backup and recovery capabilities.
Depending on the agreed scope, the review may include:
Deliverables are based on the agreed scope and may include:
The goal is a clearer understanding of what is protected, what can be recovered today, and where further planning, testing, or investment may be appropriate.
Successful backup jobs are important, but they do not confirm that systems and data can be restored when needed.
Recovery also depends on access, infrastructure, documentation, people, vendors, system dependencies, and the order in which services are restored.
When testing is included in the engagement, TDY IT works with you to define an appropriate scope, consider business impact, document the results, and compare actual recovery capabilities with current expectations.
No. The engagement is modular and can focus on a specific backup platform, system, recovery concern, or broader environment.
A successful backup confirms that a job completed. It does not necessarily confirm that the right data was protected or that it can be restored within the expected timeframe.
Testing is planned around the agreed scope and business impact. Isolated or non-production testing may be used when practical.
Yes. TDY IT can help document and improve the technology components of disaster recovery and work with the people responsible for broader business continuity planning.
Yes. Scope may include physical infrastructure, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, endpoints, networks, business applications, and vendor-managed systems.
We start with the concern that prompted the review. Available documentation, system access, vendor information, and known recovery expectations can follow as the scope is defined. Unknowns are part of the discovery process.
Understand what is protected, confirm how recovery is expected to work, and identify where planning, testing, or improvement may be needed.
The engagement can focus on a specific concern or provide a broader review of backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.