Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster recovery planning that gets you back online in minutes โ€” not days.

A fire, a bad deploy, or a ransomware hit can erase a business that wasn't ready. We design, build, and test disaster recovery โ€” backups, multi-region replication, automated failover, recovery playbooks โ€” so a catastrophe becomes a blip, not a closure.

  • RTO in minutes
  • Near-zero data loss
  • Tested, not theoretical
18 min

Recovery time (RTO)

5 min

Recovery point (RPO)

100%

DR simulation pass rate

Quarterly

Game-day re-tests

Why plan for the worst

The outage isn't the risk โ€” being unprepared is

Disasters are rare but not optional. The difference between a blip and a closure is whether the recovery was designed and tested in advance.

Backups you can actually restore

Automated, validated backups with restore drills โ€” because an untested backup is just a hope. We confirm the data comes back, not just that it's stored.

Multi-region replication

Continuous replication keeps a standby region within seconds of production, so failover loses minutes of data, not days.

Automated failover

DNS failover reroutes traffic to a healthy standby the moment the primary goes down โ€” recovery measured in minutes, not a frantic all-hands.

Tested, not theoretical

We run game-day simulations that actually execute the plan, so your runbooks are proven and your team is practiced before the real thing.

What you walk away with

A plan that's been run for real

A DR plan in a document is a liability. You get the built infrastructure plus the proof it recovers within your targets.

  • Disaster recovery strategy with agreed RTO and RPO targets
  • Multi-region backup and replication configuration
  • Automated failover scripting and DNS routing
  • Tested recovery runbooks for each failure scenario
  • Game-day simulation results and validation report
  • Re-test schedule to keep the plan from drifting

From impact analysis to handover

How a DR program runs

  1. 1

    Business impact & risk

    We rank what must come back first and set RTO/RPO targets from the cost of downtime and data loss โ€” the plan starts from your business, not a template.

  2. 2

    Design & build backups

    Backups, replication, and the standby environment are built to hit the agreed targets, with restore drills proving the data returns.

  3. 3

    Script the failover

    Failover and DNS routing are automated so recovery doesn't depend on one engineer remembering the steps at 3am.

  4. 4

    Simulate & hand over

    A controlled game-day executes the full plan, validates RTO/RPO, and you receive runbooks plus a re-test schedule.

Recovery, proven

Greenfield: a 3-day recovery gap closed to 18 minutes

A credit union's 'DR plan' was a folder of restore notes nobody had ever run. An auditor flagged it. We designed, built, and game-day-tested real cross-region failover.

Greenfield Credit Union

Financial services ยท USA

FinTech ยท Banking
Recovery time objective (RTO)240ร— faster
Before
~3 days
After
18 min
Recovery point objective (RPO)near-zero loss
Before
~24 hours
After
5 min
DR simulation pass rateproven
Before
0% (never tested)
After
100%
18 min

RTO (was ~3 days)

5 min

RPO (was ~24 hrs)

100%

Game-day pass rate

0

Audit findings remaining

โ€œOur disaster plan was a document nobody had ever executed โ€” the auditor was right to flag it. pyronix built real cross-region failover and proved it in a game-day: three days of theoretical recovery became eighteen tested minutes.โ€
โ€” CISO, Greenfield Credit Union
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Straight answers

Disaster recovery questions

What is disaster recovery planning?

Disaster recovery planning is designing, building, and testing the systems and procedures that restore your applications and data after a major failure โ€” a region outage, a bad deploy, ransomware, or hardware loss. It defines how fast you recover (RTO) and how much data you can afford to lose (RPO), then engineers the backups, replication, and failover to hit those targets.

What do RTO and RPO mean?

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum acceptable downtime before service is restored. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss, measured in time โ€” for example, recovering to the last five minutes. We set both with you based on business impact, then design the architecture to meet them.

How do you test a disaster recovery plan?

We run controlled, off-hours simulations that actually execute the failover โ€” redirecting traffic to a standby region or restored databases โ€” and verify the system comes up correctly within the agreed RTO and RPO. An untested DR plan is a guess; we prove it works before you ever need it, and re-test on a schedule.

Can you design cross-region failover?

Yes. We build active-passive and active-active architectures across separate cloud regions, or cloud-to-on-premises, using DNS failover and continuous database replication. When the primary goes down, traffic reroutes to a healthy standby automatically, so an outage becomes minutes of degradation rather than days offline.

How often should disaster recovery be tested?

At least quarterly, and after any significant architecture change. Infrastructure drifts, dependencies change, and a plan that worked last year can silently break. Regular game-day simulations keep the runbooks accurate and the team practiced, so recovery is routine rather than improvised under pressure.

Make the catastrophe a blip, not a closure.

Tell us what can't go down and for how long. We'll set your RTO and RPO, build the failover to hit them, and prove it in a game-day before you ever need it.

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