Backup & Disaster Recovery
Protect your critical data and ensure business continuity with our comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions. Minimize downtime and data loss with enterprise-grade protection.
Data Backup
Regularly back up your critical data to secure locations, ensuring minimal data loss in case of an incident.
Database Replication
Replicate your databases to multiple locations for redundancy and faster recovery times.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan tailored to your business needs, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
Point-in-Time Recovery
Restore your data to any specific point in time with granular recovery capabilities.
Cross-Region Backup
Distribute backups across multiple geographic regions for maximum protection.
Backup Monitoring
Continuous monitoring of backup processes with automated alerts and reporting.
Comprehensive Protection Strategy
Our backup and disaster recovery solutions provide enterprise-grade protection for your critical data and systems.
Technologies We Work With
Enterprise backup and disaster recovery solutions
Database-Specific Backup Solutions
Generic backup tools leave gaps. Our database engineers implement purpose-built backup strategies for each database engine's specific architecture, replication model, and consistency requirements.
MySQL & Percona
RPO < 1 second- Percona XtraBackup (hot physical backups)
- mysqldump / mydumper for logical backups
- Binary log (binlog) for PITR
- Percona XtraDB Cluster SST for Galera
PostgreSQL
RPO < 1 second- pgBackRest with WAL archiving
- Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager)
- WAL-G for cloud-native WAL archiving
- pg_basebackup for physical base backups
MongoDB
RPO < 5 seconds- MongoDB Ops Manager / Cloud Manager
- mongodump / mongorestore for logical
- Filesystem snapshots with journal consistency
- Atlas continuous cloud backup
Cassandra
RPO < 60 seconds- Medusa for Cassandra backup automation
- nodetool snapshot for node-level backups
- SSTable-based incremental backups
- Multi-datacenter replication as DR
Redis / Valkey
RPO < 1 second- RDB snapshots (point-in-time)
- AOF (Append-Only File) for durability
- Redis Sentinel for HA failover
- Redis Cluster cross-shard replication
Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
RPO < 5 minutes- Snapshot API to S3/GCS/Azure Blob
- Incremental shard-level snapshots
- Cross-cluster replication (CCR)
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
Understanding RTO & RPO for Databases
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are the two most critical metrics for any database backup strategy. We design each backup architecture to meet your specific business SLAs.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
The maximum acceptable time to restore your database after an outage. A lower RTO means faster recovery and less business disruption.
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
The maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time. A lower RPO requires more frequent backups and often continuous replication.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about database backup and disaster recovery
How often should we backup our production database?
Backup frequency depends on your RPO. Mission-critical databases (banking, e-commerce) typically need continuous WAL archiving for sub-second RPO, plus daily full backups and hourly incrementals. Less critical databases may be fine with daily full backups. We assess your tolerance for data loss and design a backup schedule that balances RPO requirements with storage cost and performance impact.
What is the difference between a backup and high availability replication?
High availability (HA) replication protects against server failures but NOT against data corruption, accidental deletion, or ransomware — all changes (including bad ones) replicate instantly to all replicas. Backups are point-in-time snapshots that let you roll back to before an incident. You need both: HA replication for uptime and backups for data integrity and compliance.
How do you test that our backups actually work?
We implement automated backup verification as part of every backup strategy. This includes automated restore tests to a separate environment, checksum validation of backup files, periodic full restore drills, and documented runbooks for each recovery scenario. Many teams discover backup failures only when they need to restore — we catch those failures proactively.
What is a 3-2-1 backup strategy?
The 3-2-1 rule means keeping 3 copies of data, on 2 different storage types, with 1 copy offsite. For databases: the primary database (copy 1) + local backup on attached storage (copy 2, different media) + remote cloud backup in another region (copy 3, offsite). This protects against hardware failure, site disasters, and ransomware that encrypts local backups.
How quickly can you restore a 10TB database?
Restore speed depends on backup type and infrastructure. Physical backups (Percona XtraBackup, pgBackRest) restore faster than logical (mysqldump). With optimized infrastructure, a 10TB MySQL database can be restored in 2-4 hours using Percona XtraBackup streaming directly to the target. PostgreSQL with pgBackRest can achieve similar speeds. We tune parallelism, network bandwidth, and I/O to minimize RTO.
Do you handle compliance requirements like HIPAA and PCI-DSS for backups?
Yes. HIPAA requires encrypted backups, access controls, and audit trails for PHI. PCI-DSS requires encryption at rest and in transit, access logging, and retention policies. We implement AES-256 encryption for all backup storage, role-based access controls, comprehensive audit logging, and retention schedules that meet your specific compliance framework requirements.
Related Services
High Availability & Failover
Complementary HA architecture with automatic failover — protect against server failures without any downtime.
Database Security Audits
Comprehensive security review of your database access controls, encryption, and backup integrity.
Emergency Database Support
24/7 emergency response when disaster strikes — expert DBAs available within 15 minutes to begin recovery.