Disaster Recovery Review
Having backups is not the same as having a recovery plan. A plan names who does what when a server or site fails, how you switch to a standby copy and how you switch back without losing data. This review checks whether yours would work when you need it.
Who it's for
- Your sites or systems run on servers you host or manage yourself.
- An outage at the wrong moment would cost you customers, audience or revenue.
- Recovery steps live in one person's head, or in a document nobody has opened in a year.
- More than one team would need to act, and it isn't clear who goes first.
What I do
- Map what could fail, from web servers to databases, and what each failure would take offline.
- Review how you would switch to a standby copy of production and switch back without losing data.
- Assign every step to an owner and check that each team knows who to call.
This review covers the plan and who owns each step. It doesn't include building standby infrastructure or running the failover test. If you need that work, I'll help you scope it and find the right specialist.
What you get
- A written recovery plan, or a gap list for the plan you already have
- An owner for every step, with clear lines of communication
- A failover test plan you can run during low traffic
Where this comes from
At a broadcasting company with 7 news websites, I represented the development team on a disaster recovery committee. We mapped every recovery step to an owner across the network and development teams and scheduled a weekend failover test.
The Disaster Recovery Review is $1,800 (two weeks). If it shows you need more than a review, the 30-day audit or an ongoing engagement is the next step.