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    Disaster Recovery & Backup Modernization

    RPO/RTO targets, restore drills, and cross-region resilience for critical workloads

    Tested recovery paths instead of shelf-ware plans
    Client
    Confidential — enterprise software
    Industry
    Enterprise Software
    Timeline
    5 months
    Technologies
    6+ tools

    The Challenge

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    Backup tools chosen per team with inconsistent retention and encryption

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    No regular restore drills; leadership lacked confidence in stated RTOs

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    Single-region dependencies for databases and object storage

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    Compliance asking for proof of immutability and access controls

    Our Solution

    Catalogued tier-1 applications with agreed RPO/RTO and dependency graphs

    Standardized backup policies, encryption, and immutability where required

    Automated quarterly restore tests with pass/fail reporting to stakeholders

    Introduced warm standby patterns for the most critical data paths

    Integrated alerting when backup jobs fail or fall out of compliance windows

    Measurable Impact

    Restore drills

    Routine

    Quarterly exercises with documented outcomes and remediation items

    RTO confidence

    Higher

    Measured restore times replaced slide-deck estimates

    Risk

    Reduced

    Fewer unknown single points of failure in data protection

    Compliance

    Aligned

    Evidence packs mapped retention, access, and testing to control frameworks

    "We finally treated recovery like a product feature. Drills were boring in the best way—predictable, measured, and owned."
    I
    Infrastructure director
    Director of Infrastructure, enterprise software (NDA)

    Technology stack

    AWS Backup
    Azure Site Recovery
    Veeam
    Terraform
    Ansible
    PagerDuty

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