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Recovery Planned Before It Is Needed

Equipment failure, cyber incidents and service outages happen to businesses of every size. Backup and disaster recovery planning from TechStarters Inc. protects critical systems and data through backup planning, recovery preparation, documented responsibilities and tested recovery procedures.

Recovery planning is coordinated with the rest of your managed IT environment, so priorities reflect how your business actually operates rather than relying on disconnected backup products or undocumented assumptions.

What Recovery Planning Covers

  • Backup planning for critical systems and business data
  • Recovery priorities based on how long each system can be down
  • Documented recovery responsibilities and procedures
  • Recovery testing, so backups are proven before they are needed
  • Planning for equipment failure, cyber incidents and outages
  • Coordination with cybersecurity to reduce ransomware risk

How We Build Your Recovery Plan

Assess

We identify the systems and data your business cannot work without and how quickly each needs to be restored.

Protect

Backups and recovery steps are put in place and documented, with clear responsibilities for your team and ours.

Test

Recovery procedures are tested and updated after major changes, so the plan works when it is needed.

Why Backups Alone Are Not Enough

A backup only helps if it can be restored quickly and completely. Business continuity planning connects backups to the people, systems and decisions needed to get back to work, from who makes the call to which systems come back first. Our business continuity plan checklist covers each part of the plan.

Two targets guide every recovery plan: how much recent data your business can afford to lose, and how long each system can be unavailable. We set these targets with you for each critical system, then design backups and recovery steps to meet them. To put a number on an outage, see how to estimate the cost of IT downtime.

Organizations with compliance obligations can align recovery planning with compliance-aligned IT services and our cybersecurity services.

Backup and Disaster Recovery FAQs

How often should recovery be tested?

Recovery procedures should be tested on a regular schedule and after major changes to systems or locations, so problems are found during a test instead of during an outage.

Does recovery planning cover ransomware?

Yes. Recovery planning is coordinated with our cybersecurity services, so restoring systems and data after a cyber incident is planned in advance. See our guide to ransomware protection for businesses.

What is the difference between backup and disaster recovery?

A backup is a copy of your data. Disaster recovery is the plan and the tested procedures for restoring systems and data and getting your team back to work after an outage, equipment failure or cyber incident.

What should a backup plan include?

A backup plan should cover business data, servers, key applications and cloud data such as Microsoft 365 email and files, along with the settings needed to rebuild critical systems. It should also record who is responsible for each recovery step.

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