Know what comes back first
Prioritize workloads and data through business impact.
Cyber resilience
Backup, cloud DR, and DR site services built around what the business must restore
Define backup, RPO/RTO, and a cloud DR or DR site plan that answers what comes back first, who decides, and how long the business can wait.
The short answer
How are backup and disaster recovery different?
Backup creates recoverable copies of data. Disaster recovery, or DR, is the standby capability that brings critical systems and business processes back within an acceptable recovery time. Cloud DR places that DR site on cloud infrastructure instead of a second data centre you own. Both need priorities, ownership, communication, and testing.
Business outcomes
Move from having backups to being ready to recover
Know who makes decisions
Define owners, escalation, and incident communication.
Build evidence through testing
Test restores and record results to expose gaps before a real event.
D SCAPE service scope
What is included?
- Business impact and workload discovery
- RPO/RTO workshops
- SaaS, endpoint, server, and cloud backup design
- Cloud DR and DR site architecture
- Recovery architecture and clean restore planning
- Recovery testing and runbooks
- Business continuity alignment and improvement reviews
FAQ
Backup, cloud DR, and DR site FAQs
How is cloud DR different from a traditional DR site?
A traditional DR site means paying for space, hardware, and maintenance you hope never to use. Cloud DR builds that standby capability on cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, so you pay for what is running, size recovery to each workload's importance, and can test failover far more often without touching production.
Do highly available cloud services still need backup?
Platform availability does not cover every event, including accidental deletion, overwrite, or ransomware. Assess recovery requirements separately.
How often should recovery be tested?
Frequency should reflect workload importance, system change, and organizational requirements. Critical workloads need a defined test schedule.
Can D SCAPE guarantee recovery in every scenario?
No responsible provider should guarantee every scenario. We reduce uncertainty through design, testing, evidence, and continuous improvement.
When did your team last test a recovery?
Start with one critical system and check whether access, sequence, ownership, and recovery time meet the business need.
Assess recovery readiness