When's the last time you tested your backup and disaster recovery plan?
Most backup tools tell you a job completed. That is not the same as knowing you can recover. We monitor the jobs, test the restore, and prove it actually works, before the next outage forces the question.
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Hurricane season is already underway. Most organizations find out their backups don't work during the storm, not before it.
Anyone can sell you backup software.
We monitor the jobs, test the restores, document the results, and stay accountable for the outcome. Katalyst is a Digital Operations Partner: we connect, protect, and operate the Digital Backbone that keeps your organization running, delivered by U.S.-based engineers who work directly with your team.
A clear picture of where you stand, in writing.
What is protected
A current inventory of every critical system and platform in scope, and everything that is not yet covered.
Whether it is working
Job success history, silent failures, and the gaps between what you believe is running and what actually is.
Whether you can recover
A test restore of representative data, with documented results and the time it took to bring it back.
Where continuity has gaps
Recovery order, staffing, communications, and the decisions nobody has made yet for a regional outage.
Most backup problems are found weeks too late.
A backup you have never test restored is a hypothesis
The only proof that a backup works is a restore. We perform test restores on a defined schedule, document what came back and how long it took, and give you the results in writing. When you tell your board or your examiner that you can recover, you will have evidence behind it rather than a green checkmark on a dashboard.
Continuity is broader than backup, and it has to be rehearsed
Recovering data is one step. Knowing who declares an outage, where people work when the office has no power, which systems come up in what order, and how long each one takes is the rest of it. We build the plan, then we test it with your team so the first rehearsal is not the real event.
Two things worth confirming before the next storm.
Backups that complete, consistently
A backup job that fails quietly is worse than no backup, because it buys you confidence you have not earned. We check every protected system around the clock, flag failures the same day they happen, and tell you which systems are covered and which are not. You get a current inventory instead of an assumption.
Microsoft 365 is your data, and your responsibility
Microsoft keeps the service running. Microsoft does not keep your data recoverable. Retention windows in Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams are short, they are not a backup, and they will not help you after a mailbox is purged or a shared library is overwritten. If Microsoft 365 is where your business operates, it belongs in the same backup program as your servers.
How we get started.
We start with a Backup & DR Readiness Review, a scoped engagement to document where you stand. From there, most clients move into Backup and DR as a Service, with Katalyst running monitoring, restores, and DR testing on an ongoing basis.
Assess
Inventory what is protected today and identify the gaps. If you move your backups to Katalyst, we onboard every system and get it backing up.
Verify
Confirm backup jobs are actually completing, with failures flagged the same day, not the same quarter.
Test restores
Recover real data on a defined schedule and document what came back, and how long it took, in writing.
Run a DR test
The big target: an actual disaster recovery exercise to recover a full site or your operations, not just a file.
Hurricane season is a deadline, not a surprise.
You have until the next storm to find out whether your backups actually work. Most organizations find out during. We verify recoverability before the season, and we test the continuity plan around it, so the first rehearsal is not the real event.
Book a CallGet the Backup & Disaster Recovery one-pager
A one-page overview of our approach to backup, business continuity, and fast recovery when something goes wrong. Download it or share it with your team.
Book your Readiness Review before the season gets busy.
We will inventory what is protected, identify what is not, verify whether your restores actually work, and tell you where your continuity plan has gaps. Thirty minutes to scope it.
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