04 — Continuity
Backup & Disaster Recovery for the day nobody plans for.
Automated, tested backups and a documented recovery plan — so a ransomware attack, a fire, or one very unfortunate delete key never becomes a company-ending event.
What it is
Insurance you actually get to test before you need it
Everybody has a backup plan until the day they need it and discover the backup hasn't run in six months, or nobody actually knows how to restore from it. Real backup and disaster recovery isn't a checkbox — it's automated daily backups, encrypted and stored somewhere separate from your main systems, tested on a schedule so you know it works before it's the only thing standing between you and a very bad week.
We pair that with a written disaster recovery plan: who does what, in what order, and how fast you should expect to be back online. Not a binder that sits in a drawer — an actual plan your team has seen before the emergency, not during it.
What's included
A plan that works whether it's a typo or a catastrophe
Automated daily backups
No one has to remember to run it — backups happen on schedule, every day, without fail.
Offsite & cloud redundancy
Copies live somewhere separate from your primary systems — a local disaster won't take everything with it.
Quarterly recovery testing
We actually restore from backup on a schedule, so "the backup works" is a fact, not a hope.
Documented DR plan
Clear, written steps for who does what — reviewed with your team, not discovered mid-crisis.
Defined recovery targets
Specific expectations for how fast critical systems come back — agreed on in advance, not improvised.
Encryption in transit & at rest
Backups are encrypted the whole way — a stolen backup drive shouldn't mean a data breach.
Why it matters
The three ways businesses actually lose everything
Ransomware
Files locked, a countdown timer, and a demand — with a tested backup, the answer is "restore," not "pay."
Human error
A wrong click, an overwritten file, a "reply all" delete. Far more common than any hacker.
Hardware & disaster
Fires, floods, and drives that just die. Physical events don't care how careful your team is.
The Good Hunter difference
We test it before you need it, not after
Real restore tests
Quarterly, documented, and reported back to you — not just a green light on a dashboard.
A plan your team has actually seen
We walk through the recovery plan together, so nobody's reading it for the first time during an outage.
Paired with real prevention
Backup is the safety net, not the whole strategy — it works alongside our managed security, not instead of it.
Questions we hear a lot
Backup & disaster recovery, plainly explained
How is this different from just saving files to the cloud?
Cloud file sync (like a shared drive) protects against a lost laptop, not against ransomware, accidental deletion that syncs everywhere, or a corrupted file overwriting a good one. Real backup keeps versioned, isolated copies specifically so you can roll back to a point before something went wrong.
How often are backups actually tested?
Quarterly, at minimum, with a documented test restore — not just a checkmark that says the backup job ran. A backup nobody's tried to restore from is a guess, not a plan.
How quickly could we actually get back up and running?
It depends on what failed and how much data is involved, but this is exactly what the disaster recovery plan defines up front — specific, agreed-on recovery time targets for your critical systems, not a vague promise to "get to it."
Does backup protect us from ransomware specifically?
Backup is your fallback if ransomware gets through prevention, not your first line of defense — that's what our Managed Security service handles. But paired together, if the worst happens, you can restore your systems instead of paying a ransom.
Where are our backups actually stored?
Offsite and in the cloud, separate from your primary systems, encrypted both in transit and at rest. If your office had a fire tomorrow, your backups wouldn't be in the building.
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