Disaster and Recovery Plan
When Systems Fail, Your Recovery Plan Shouldn’t
Deployus works with your team to design and document a disaster and recovery plan with clear priorities, agreed timelines, and tested recovery steps—so operations can resume with confidence.
Plan for Recovery Before It’s Needed
When systems fail—whether through cyberattack, hardware damage or natural disasters—you need more than backups. You need to know which services come back first, how quickly they’ll be restored, and what impact each hour of downtime will have.
We help define and plan your recovery in a disaster clearly: the people involved, the actions they take, and the timeframes to expect. This plan is developed with your input and approved by you before it’s ever needed.
Every DR plan includes:
- A practical risk assessment tied to your actual operations
- RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective) you can rely on
- Written responsibilities and timelines
- Tested steps for systems, applications, and access
Built With You, Not For You
Each disaster recovery plan solution starts with a series of planning sessions. Together, we document what’s required to bring your business back online—fully or partially—based on priority. If your server is down, which users and applications are considered mission critical? If email is back but your database isn’t, what does that mean for your team?
We work through these scenarios with your internal leads. The result is a disaster recovery plan built from your real systems and risk profile.
Our focus on planning for disaster recovery ensures this isn’t just a technical document—it’s a tool your team can follow under pressure.
Disaster Recovery You Can Trust
Your disaster recovery plan is more than a safety net. It defines how quickly we spin up virtual machines, how your backups are accessed, and how your business continues without waiting on hardware.
We follow a 3-2-1 model: three copies of your data, across two formats, with one stored offsite. Recovery times vary based on scale, but in most cases:
- Single servers can be recovered within two hours
- Larger networks are restored within two business days
- Cloud failover is available using our DRaaS model—with no compute charges unless it’s activated
This is our approach to disaster recovery procedure plans—flexible, tested, and ready when needed.
Services That Keep You in Control
Deployus delivers disaster recovery planning services that adapt to your environment—not the other way around. You’ll receive a plan you understand, regular testing recommendations, and full transparency around costs.
We make sure your business continues, even during major disruptions and different types of disasters. And we’ll ensure your recovery processes are as practical as they are reliable.
Whether you’re responding to natural disasters, cyber incidents, or operational outages, we work with your team to prioritise recovery, reduce confusion, and restore services fast.
A Recovery Strategy That Fits Your Business
There’s no single template for recovery or one catch-all disaster recovery plan example that we rely on. Every disaster recovery strategy we build reflects your budget, operations, and tolerance for downtime.
- We help define your recovery time objective (RTO) clearly and realistically
- We set a recovery point objective (RPO) that aligns with data integrity needs
- We include only the tools and steps you need—nothing more, nothing less
Our disaster recovery solutions use proven, cloud-enabled systems to give you rapid access to data and services. And with a disaster recovery process that includes regular testing, updates, and clear responsibilities, you’ll always know what to expect.
Flexibility That Respects Your Budget
Our Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is designed for flexibility. You pay for secure cloud backups and compute time only kicks in if recovery is activated. It’s a smart, scalable way to ensure you’re protected—without carrying costs you may never use.
It also means fewer delays, no panicked workarounds, and support from the same engineers who know your environment.
It Starts With a Conversation
If you’ve outgrown generic recovery tools—or never had a proper plan—we’re ready to help. Deployus designs recovery that’s measured, tested, and aligned to the way you work.
Let’s make sure you’re ready—whatever happens next.
FAQs
The Questions That Matter When Recovery Is on the Line
What are the essential components of an effective disaster and recovery strategy?
An effective disaster and recovery strategy includes more than just backups—it requires a realistic assessment of your systems, defined recovery timeframes, and documented roles. Importantly, it should outline how critical applications will be prioritised and restored across both on-premises and cloud environments. It also needs to account for your long-term operations—not just the first few hours after an incident—ensuring continuity while systems are being fully restored or replaced.
How do you create a business continuity plan following an unexpected incident?
Business continuity planning after an incident starts with an honest review of what failed, why it happened, and how it impacted operations. From there, we work with clients to formalise the response: documenting what actions were taken, what could have been done faster, and how to build a more resilient process moving forward. This often leads to refining or expanding your disaster recovery plan for cloud services, especially where new risks or blind spots are uncovered.
Can you provide a real-world disaster recovery plan example?
In one case, a professional services client experienced a server failure that disrupted access to time-sensitive client data. Their tailored recovery plan triggered a rapid failover to a cloud-hosted environment. Within 90 minutes, critical applications were fully operational, with minimal data loss. The recovery sequence was based on a plan we had tested with them just months prior—reinforcing the importance of realistic planning, targeted testing, and regular updates.
What steps should be included in a recovery procedure after a system failure?
A thorough recovery procedure should first verify the scope of the failure—what systems or data have been affected—and confirm the integrity of the last clean backup. From there, the process includes reinitialising infrastructure (physical or cloud-based), restoring critical applications in the correct sequence, and validating access for users. Communication protocols are essential too—both internally and with clients—along with post-recovery checks to prevent repeat incidents. The focus should always be on minimising disruption in both the short and long term.
How does cloud-based backup support disaster recovery efforts?
Cloud-based backup provides geographic redundancy, enabling access to your data even if your local environment is compromised. It also plays a key role in supporting a disaster recovery plan for cloud services, especially where time to restore is critical. When integrated with virtual failover systems, cloud backups allow you to spin up core infrastructure in a secure, hosted environment—helping your business maintain operations while underlying issues are addressed.