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Infrastructure & Security Simplified

We've got backup, so we're covered for DR

Two different problems, sold as if they were one.

Backup answers a narrow question: can I get the data back? DR answers a much bigger one: can the business keep running?

You can have immaculate backups and still be down for a week. The data sits there, perfectly intact, while there is no failover target to bring it up on, no runbook for who does what, no tested process, and a restore of any real size measured in days rather than minutes.

Backup is a copy. DR is a capability. One is a file you retrieve. The other is people, process and infrastructure, rehearsed to bring a service back inside a window the business can actually survive.

The trap is treating them as one line on a quote, often bought together and assumed equivalent. It is one of the most common gaps I see in this market, and it stays invisible right up until the worst possible day.

If you test one thing this year, test a recovery, not a restore. That difference is the whole point.

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Written by Mandeep Singh. More at the writing index or get in touch.