Managed Service

Disaster Recovery Testing

A backup you've never actually failed over is a plan you're hoping works, not one you know works. We run real failover simulations against your actual environment, so the first time you find a gap isn't during a live outage.

Business Continuity Playbook

Disaster recovery isn't just about data — it's about people. We map who communicates with clients and how staff access tools remotely, so the business keeps running while systems are restored.

Real-World Failover Simulations

Not a single test file restored and called a success — actual, isolated failovers of critical servers and cloud environments, simulating a total loss.

Exposing Hidden Gaps

Data that restores but firewall rules block remote access, third-party integrations that quietly break — the gaps that only surface during an actual failover get found and fixed safely.

Validating the Recovery Timeline

A plan might claim systems will be up in two hours. We time real failover tests to establish an actual Recovery Time Objective, so your leadership team has real numbers, not guesswork.

How the Engagement Works

A structured test, run safely, that leaves you with a plan proven to actually work.

  • Playbook development. We map the human side of an outage with your leadership — who communicates with clients, how staff access tools remotely — before a single system gets tested.
  • Failover simulation. Critical servers and cloud environments actually fail over to a secondary location in an isolated environment, rather than a single file being restored and called a success.
  • Gap identification. Every configuration issue the simulation surfaces gets logged and fixed, before it can happen during a real outage instead of a safe test.
  • RTO validation & reporting. The actual time to recover gets measured against what the plan claims, so your leadership team has a real number instead of a guess.

Frequently Asked Questions

Backups tell you data exists somewhere. They don't tell you whether that data will actually restore under real conditions, how long it will take, or whether your team knows what to do while it's happening. Testing is what turns a backup into a plan you can trust.

No — failover simulations run against an isolated secondary environment, not your production systems. The point is to find problems safely, not create new ones.

Commonly: data that restores but firewall rules blocking remote access afterward, third-party integrations that quietly depended on the original environment, or staff who don't know the manual steps to keep operating while systems are down. These rarely show up until you actually run the test.

Recovery Time Objective — how long it actually takes to get operations back up after an outage. Plans often claim a number nobody's verified. We time real failover tests to get an actual figure, so your leadership team is planning around reality, not an estimate.

At least annually, and again after any significant change to your infrastructure — a new system, a cloud migration, a change in vendors. A plan that hasn't been tested since it was written is already out of date.

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