What Is Disaster Recovery? 01AprDisaster recovery is the process of preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organisation after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity. While business continuity involved planning for keeping all aspects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptive events, disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technology systems that support business functions. How vCloud makes a difference to your backup and recovery planning:We store your backed up data remotely in our completely secure data centre. Backups are stored in your vault that no one else can accessWe monitor your backups in real time We monitor all backups, regardless of your chosen planWe maintain backups every 15 – 30 minutes, 1 – 8 hours, or daily You choose how important your data is to youRestore individual files or complete folders in case of accidental deletion We can access your backup if you accidentally delete a file and restore it in secondsProvide you with a temporary measure to bring your business back online using VirtualBoot and/or headstart restore technology We give you the ability to continue working through any IT disaster, all you need is a laptop and an internet connectionPerform a bare metal recovery onto new hardware in case of hardware failures We can do an independent hardware restore onto a new server Move physical servers to virtual servers We can move your on-premises database onto a server, or vice-versaVerify and re-verify your backups With our new monitoring software, we can not only verify to make sure your data is right, but re-verify to be certainProvide monthly or quarterly restore tests of your backups We can manually test your backups to ensure that when you need them, they’re readyAt vCloud, we took the time to develop an in-house service application to help us with our alert management. Part of being apart of vCloud is our option to have your data replicated to our off-site location. This service application helps us to monitor certain critical factors like:When backups don’t happen within a certain time windowThe size of backups that are being copied acrossIf a file is missed or is copied again with a different sizeThese notifications are sent via email and SMS, alerting the support team that there may be possible issues with your backup.Tweet