In our digital-first world, it’s not if a disruption happens but when. VITS helps you prepare with a layered, purposeful Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR) strategy designed, tested, and ready.
Effective disaster recovery isn’t just about backups; it’s a proactive, strategic approach that preserves operations, reputation, and resilience when it counts. It enables swift restoration, minimises downtime, and protects data through defined policies underpinning both business continuity and regulatory compliance.
Asset Inventory & Risk Assessment
Catalogue all essential systems, hardware, software, and data. Evaluate threats (hardware failure, cyberattacks, natural disasters) and assess business impacts to prioritise recovery efforts.
Define RTO & RPO
Set your recovery time (RTO) and point (RPO) objectives, aligning IT recovery strategies with business needs.
Backup Strategy (3-2-1 Approach)
Apply the trusted backup model, maintain 3 data copies, store on 2 media types, with at least one off-site or air-gapped copy.
Off-site & Hybrid Backups
Ensure backups are stored reliably as distant as necessary (cloud or external vaults) to survive local disasters while keeping recent, fast recovery data locally accessible.
Design Recovery Sites & DR Modes
Choose recovery models: Hot Sites for near-immediate failover; DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) for cost-effective, managed recovery; Virtualised DR for rapid infrastructure redeployment.
Document & Communicate
Develop clear DR policies, roles, and communication plans including crisis response, team responsibilities, and vendor coordination.
Test & Iterate
A plan is only as good as its tests. Regular drills, tabletop simulations, and live recoveries reveal gaps and build confidence across teams.
Audit & Improve Continuously
Measure performance against RTO/RPO, confirm governance, and evolve your plan with lessons learned and changing infrastructure.
Inventory your systems, analyze threats, and set RTO/RPO targets aligned to critical business functions.
Apply 3‑2‑1 backups, select recovery sites or services, and implement hybrid or virtualized infrastructure where needed.
Clarify who’s in charge, how communications flow, and how to act during diverse scenarios (cyberattack, hardware failure, power loss).
Run live and tabletop exercises across scenarios, including ransomware and infrastructure failure, to validate readiness.
Audit performance against recovery objectives, update based on findings, and schedule recurrent testing.
Downtime is never convenient but it’s always costly. Let VITS help you build a BDR strategy that stands up against real-world disruptions. Ready when you are.
Contact VITS today to begin your Backup & Disaster Recovery Planning and ensure continuity when it matters most.
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Planning and preparation involve creating strategies, policies, and procedures to ensure your business can quickly recover data and operations after a disruption such as cyberattacks, hardware failures, or natural disasters.
Without proper planning, businesses risk extended downtime, data loss, and financial damage. Preparing in advance ensures critical systems can be restored quickly, minimising disruption and maintaining business continuity.
Yes. Many regulations and standards, such as GDPR, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS, require organisations to have measures in place to protect and recover data. A well-documented disaster recovery plan helps demonstrate compliance and reduces the risk of penalties.
A strong plan should outline backup schedules, data storage locations, recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), roles and responsibilities, and clear steps for restoring operations.
Yes. SMEs are just as vulnerable to disruptions as large enterprises, but often have fewer resources to recover. Effective planning and preparation give smaller organisations resilience and confidence in the face of unexpected events.
