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Disaster Recovery Rehearsal

A hands-on exercise that proves your backups can actually be restored, times the full recovery, and closes the gaps it uncovers.

7 working days₹13,999 incl. GST7 deliverables
Overview

What this service covers

Most organisations back up their data, but few have ever tried restoring it, and that gap usually shows up at the worst moment: a nightly database dump quietly failing for months on end, or a 400GB restore that takes eleven hours nobody planned for. We restore your data into an isolated environment, check that nothing is missing or inconsistent, and time the whole process. You receive measured recovery figures and a clear procedure someone can follow at 3am.

Deliverables

What you receive

  • An inventory of backup coverage for databases, files and configuration
  • A full restore carried out into an isolated environment
  • Post-restore integrity checks, including row counts and checksums
  • Measured time-to-recover and data-loss window for each system
  • A gap analysis identifying anything not backed up at all
  • A step-by-step restore runbook written for use under pressure
  • A costed remediation plan for the problems the drill uncovered
How it runs

The work in 4 stages

  1. Stage 1: Take stock

    We list what each system backs up and how often that happens.

  2. Stage 2: Restore for real

    A genuine restore is run into an isolated environment.

  3. Stage 3: Check the data

    Completeness and application behaviour are both confirmed.

  4. Stage 4: Hand over findings

    You receive the timings, the gaps found and a plan to close them.

Fit and inputs

Who it suits, and what we need from you

Ideal for

  • Organisations that have never tested restoring a backup
  • Teams with recovery commitments written into customer contracts
  • Businesses following up on an incident that exposed a backup gap

What we need from you

  • Access to each in-scope system and wherever its backups are stored
  • A target environment or cloud account to restore into
  • Guidance on how to tell that restored data is correct

You share these through the brief on your order page after checkout.

Why it helps

What changes for your team

  • Recovery times based on an actual test rather than a guess
  • Missing backups are found before you need them
  • A restore process that works even if its author is unavailable
Questions

Questions about this service

That becomes the most important finding of the exercise, and fixing it moves to the top of the remediation plan.

No. Restores happen in an isolated environment, and we only read from your backup storage.

Every quarter for critical systems. With the runbook in hand, your own team can repeat the drill unaided.

This is a remote service: nothing is shipped physically, and the work is delivered into systems you control. See delivery and handover and refunds and cancellation for the full terms.

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