Let's talk about something uncomfortable. When was the last time your organization actually tested a full disaster recovery scenario? Not discussed it in a meeting. Not reviewed the documentation. Actually attempted to restore critical systems from backup and measured how long it took.

If you're like most organizations, the honest answer is either "never" or "we're not sure it would work."

This is one of the most dangerous gaps in IT today. Businesses invest in backup solutions, configure nightly jobs, and assume everything is fine — until a ransomware attack encrypts everything including the backup volumes, or a hardware failure takes out a system that turns out to have been silently failing backups for months, or a cloud region outage reveals that your "disaster recovery" was actually just a second copy in the same availability zone.

The consequences are stark. Unplanned downtime costs businesses thousands of dollars per minute. Organizations without tested recovery plans face average recovery times measured in days or weeks. And for smaller businesses, the financial and reputational impact of an extended outage can be existential.

InTechsters takes disaster recovery seriously — which means we take testing seriously. We don't just set up backup jobs and move on. We design recovery architectures around your actual business requirements, implement solutions that protect against modern threats like ransomware, and then prove everything works through regular, documented recovery drills.

Our Backup & DR Services

Backup Strategy Design & Assessment — We assess your current data landscape, application dependencies, and business criticality to design a backup strategy with appropriate frequency, retention policies, and storage tiers. Everything is aligned to your Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) — not generic defaults.

Automated Backup Implementation — Deployment of automated, scheduled backup solutions across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. Every backup is encrypted in transit and at rest, with integrity verification to ensure recoverability.

Backup Monitoring & Health Checks — Continuous monitoring of backup job success, failure, and data integrity. Silent failures — where backup jobs technically run but don't produce recoverable data — are one of the most common and dangerous backup problems. We catch them before they matter.

Ransomware-Resilient Backup Architecture — Modern ransomware specifically targets backup systems. We design immutable backup strategies, air-gapped storage, and write-once-read-many (WORM) configurations that protect your recovery data even when attackers have administrative access to your environment.

Disaster Recovery Planning — Comprehensive DR plans with documented recovery procedures, system prioritization, communication protocols, roles and responsibilities, and regulatory notification workflows — not a template document that sits on a shelf.

Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery — Leveraging cloud infrastructure for cost-effective DR with geo-redundant replication, cross-region failover, and pilot-light or warm-standby architectures that balance recovery speed with cost.

Hybrid DR Architecture — For organizations with both on-premise and cloud workloads, we design hybrid recovery architectures that ensure coverage across your entire environment regardless of where systems live.

Database Backup & Recovery — Specialized backup strategies for database systems including point-in-time recovery, transaction log management, and database-consistent snapshots for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and cloud-native databases.

Microsoft 365 / SaaS Backup — Most organizations don't realize that Microsoft and other SaaS providers operate under a shared responsibility model — they protect the platform, but your data is your responsibility. We implement third-party backup solutions for M365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and other SaaS platforms.

DR Testing & Validation — Regular, documented recovery drills that test your actual ability to restore critical systems within your defined RTO and RPO. We test failover procedures, validate data integrity, measure recovery times, and document results for compliance and leadership reporting.

DR Tabletop Exercises — Scenario-based exercises for your leadership and operations teams to walk through disaster scenarios — ransomware, regional outages, data corruption — testing decision-making, communication, and coordination without the risk of a live drill.

Compliance-Aligned DR Documentation — DR plans and testing evidence aligned with SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, and other frameworks that require documented business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.

Platforms & Technologies

We design and implement DR solutions using AWS Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Google Cloud DR, Veeam, Commvault, Zerto, Druva, Rubrik, and other leading backup and recovery platforms. Our recommendations are vendor-neutral and based on your specific requirements.

Frequently Asked Questions

How often should we test our disaster recovery plan?

At minimum, annually. We recommend quarterly testing for critical systems and after any significant infrastructure change. The more frequently you test, the more confident you can be that recovery will work when you actually need it.

Our backups are managed by our hosting provider. Is that enough?

It depends on what's included. Many hosting and cloud providers offer basic backup capabilities, but the responsibility for ensuring those backups are properly configured, tested, and recoverable typically falls on you. We regularly find that provider-managed backups have gaps in coverage, retention, or recoverability.

Can you protect our backups from ransomware?

Yes. Ransomware-resilient backup architecture is one of our core specialties. We implement immutable storage, air-gapped copies, and WORM-compliant retention policies that ensure your recovery data remains intact even during a full environment compromise.