Overview
A disaster recovery plan that's never been tested isn't a plan — it's a guess. I design DR strategy around your actual RTO/RPO requirements, automate the backups that make it possible, and then prove it works with a real failover test, not just a document that says it should.
What's Included
- RTO/RPO assessment — realistic recovery time and recovery point targets based on your business requirements, not arbitrary numbers
- Backup automation — scheduled, automated backups across databases, storage, and configuration
- Multi-region failover design — architecture for recovering in a secondary region if your primary goes down
- DR runbook documentation — step-by-step recovery procedures a team member can follow under pressure
- Failover testing — an actual DR drill to validate the plan works, not just that it reads well
Our Process
- Business impact assessment — which systems matter most, and what recovery time/data loss is actually acceptable
- DR architecture design — backup strategy and failover topology proposal, scoped to your RTO/RPO targets
- Implementation — backup automation and failover infrastructure built out
- Drill & handover — a live failover test, followed by runbook documentation and a walkthrough
Who This Is For
Teams with a DR plan that exists only as a document nobody's tested, or no DR plan at all. Especially relevant for regulated industries or any business where extended downtime has real financial consequences.
FAQ
How do you test failover without risking production? Drills are run against a cloned or staging environment first. A production drill, if wanted, is scheduled during a low-traffic maintenance window with a clear rollback plan.
What RTO/RPO should we target? It depends entirely on your business — the assessment phase is specifically about setting realistic targets rather than assuming "zero downtime" is the right (or affordable) goal for every system.
Does this cover database failover specifically? Yes, and it pairs directly with High Availability PostgreSQL if your database isn't already set up for automatic failover.