Backup & DR
“We have no disaster recovery plan”
You back up your databases. Probably. But could you actually restore your entire application in an emergency? And how long would it take? Most businesses can't answer that with confidence.
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Tested, automated backups with proven recovery.
Every critical system backed up. Every backup tested. Recovery time measured in minutes, not guesses. Compliance evidence generated automatically.
You run backups. They complete successfully. At least, the logs say they do. But when was the last time you tested a full restore? Could you rebuild your application from scratch if everything failed at once?
For most businesses, the honest answer is “I don’t know.” That gap between assumed protection and tested protection is where disasters happen.
The backup paradox
Backups are the easiest thing to set up and the easiest thing to neglect. The initial configuration takes an hour. But maintaining, testing, and proving those backups work takes discipline that gets deprioritised against feature work every single sprint.
The result: backup jobs that have silently failed for weeks. Retention policies that don’t match compliance requirements. Recovery procedures that exist only in one person’s memory, and have never been tested under pressure.
What real protection looks like
Disaster recovery isn’t a product. It’s a discipline. We build and maintain the entire chain: backup configuration, automated testing, verified restores, retention policies, and compliance reporting.
Immutable backups. Your backup data cannot be modified or deleted by ransomware, rogue insiders, or accidental misconfigurations. Once written, it’s protected.
Tested regularly. We don’t trust backup completion logs. We perform actual restores on a schedule and verify the recovered data is usable. You get a report proving it works.
Aligned to your business. Recovery targets (RTO and RPO) are defined by your business needs, not by what’s easiest technically. If your application needs to recover in 15 minutes, that’s what we build and test for.
What's usually in the way
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Backups exist but have never been tested
You're confident backups are running. Until a restore fails. Untested backups are assumptions, not protection.
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No defined RTO or RPO
Nobody has agreed how much data loss is acceptable or how fast recovery needs to happen. Without targets, you can't build a plan.
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Compliance requires evidence you don't have
Auditors want proof of backup testing, retention policies, and recovery procedures. You're producing this evidence manually. If at all.
What we resolve
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Automated backup testing with verified restores
Regular automated restore tests that prove your backups work. Not a checkbox. An actual verified recovery with a report.
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RTO and RPO targets defined and measured
We work with you to define recovery targets that match your business needs, then build and test the infrastructure to meet them.
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Compliance-ready reports generated automatically
Backup logs, test results, and retention evidence produced on schedule. Ready for your next audit without scrambling.
“Compliance audit preparation has reduced from days to hours now that backups are consistently applied, tested and centrally reported.”
CISO , FinTech SaaS, 60 employees
Frequently asked questions
What does Backup & DR cover?
Defined RTO and RPO per workload, automated backups across your AWS estate, regular tested restores, immutable storage, and audit-ready evidence packs. AWS Backup as the engine; we build the discipline around it.
How often do you test restores?
Quarterly at minimum for critical workloads, monthly for the most sensitive. Restore tests are scheduled, scripted, and recorded. Auditors get evidence; you get confidence.
What's the difference between this and just enabling AWS Backup?
AWS Backup is a tool, not a strategy. We define the policies, agree RTO/RPO with you, isolate backup accounts so a compromised production account can't destroy backups, test the restores, and produce the audit evidence. The tool's the same; the discipline isn't.
What if we already have backups in place?
Most clients do. We start with a gap analysis: what's covered, what isn't, what's tested, what's assumed. Sometimes the existing setup is fine and we just add testing and evidence. Sometimes we find gaps that would have hurt in a real incident.
How does this satisfy audit requirements?
We map our policies to whatever framework you're audited against (ISO 27001, SOC 2, FCA SYSC). The evidence is generated continuously, not assembled the week before an audit. Most clients reduce backup-related audit prep by 80%.
Ready to take the next step?
No obligation, just a clear conversation about where you are and what's possible.