Disaster Recovery & Backups
Disaster recovery (DR) is the plan and tooling that restores your systems and data after a major failure — a region outage, a corrupted database, a ransomware attack, or human error that deletes production data. It is anchored by two metrics: Recovery Time Objective (RTO), how long you can be down, and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), how much data you can afford to lose. Backups are the foundation, but DR also covers tested restore procedures, replicated infrastructure, and runbooks.
Why It Matters
A backup you have never restored is a hope, not a plan. The businesses that survive a catastrophic failure are the ones that defined their RTO and RPO, automated their recovery, and tested it before they needed it. For most companies, an untested DR plan is discovered to be broken at the worst possible moment.
Problem It Solves
Solves the existential risk of permanent data loss or extended outage. Hardware fails, regions go down, and people make mistakes — DR ensures that none of these events ends your business. It turns a potential company-ending catastrophe into a measured, recoverable incident.
How We Approach It
Melexsoft builds automated, tested backups and disaster recovery into every production system, with restore procedures defined as code so they actually work when needed. Because you own your infrastructure and data after handover, your recovery capability stays fully in your control.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between RTO and RPO?
- RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum acceptable time to restore service after a failure — how long you can be down. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time — how far back your last usable backup can be. Both drive how often you back up and how you replicate.
How often should we test our disaster recovery plan?
- At least quarterly, and after any significant architecture change. An untested DR plan tends to fail in subtle ways — missing permissions, stale runbooks, backups that do not actually restore. Regular drills are the only way to trust your RTO.
Are cloud provider backups enough on their own?
- Not always. Automated snapshots protect against hardware failure but may not protect against accidental deletion, account compromise, or region-wide outages. A robust strategy includes cross-region and often cross-account or offline copies.
How does Melexsoft approach disaster recovery?
- We define your RTO and RPO targets, automate backups, and write restore procedures as code that we test, not just document. After handover you own the entire recovery setup, so your business continuity does not depend on us.
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The Problem
Solves the existential risk of permanent data loss or extended outage. Hardware fails, regions go down, and people make mistakes — DR ensures that none of these events ends your business. It turns a potential company-ending catastrophe into a measured, recoverable incident.
How We Solve It
Melexsoft builds automated, tested backups and disaster recovery into every production system, with restore procedures defined as code so they actually work when needed. Because you own your infrastructure and data after handover, your recovery capability stays fully in your control.
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