A backup only counts once you've actually restored from it. Plenty of backups run "successfully" for months and are quietly useless — a missed database, a corrupt chain, a job that silently stopped reporting. The status dashboard stays green while the recovery isn't there.
So we grade backups on the one thing that matters: whether they restore.
We rehearse the restore on a schedule
On a regular cadence we actually recover from your backups. We pull individual files back, and we rebuild whole systems into an isolated environment to confirm they boot, run, and hold their data.
While we do it, we time it. How long to get one file back. How long to stand a server back up. That gives you a recovery time you've measured — a real number you can put in a plan.
Then we open the data and use it. We confirm the database is consistent, the files open, the application starts — intact and usable, all the way through.
We document it, and we fix what the drill finds
Every drill is written down: what we restored, how long it took, what we verified, and anything that didn't go cleanly. Over time that's a record you can show an auditor, an insurer, or yourself.
And drills surface gaps — they always do. A workload nobody added to the job. A retention window that's too short. A restore that works but takes far longer than anyone assumed. You find it in a drill, while the stakes are low, and we fix it then.
This is the whole point: proof you can point to. We run these drills for businesses across the New York Metro and the Puget Sound Area, so when something fails for real, recovery is a procedure you've already rehearsed.
Knowing your data will come back is a quieter way to run a business.
