Backup and Disaster Recovery
Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is the combined discipline of protecting data and protecting operations. Backup is the practice of regularly creating recoverable copies of data. Disaster recovery is the broader set of plans, procedures, and infrastructure that brings systems, applications, and business operations back online after a disruptive event. The two are related but not the same — having backups does not, by itself, mean a firm can recover.
Backup Versus Disaster Recovery
A backup answers the question “can we get the data back?” A disaster recovery capability answers the larger question “can we get the business running again, and how fast?” A firm can have complete backups and still suffer a multi-day outage if it has no tested plan to rebuild servers, restore applications, re-establish connectivity, and verify data integrity. Effective BDR covers both: protected copies of data, and a documented, tested recovery process.
Modern BDR and Ransomware
Ransomware has reshaped what good BDR requires. Attackers now deliberately target and encrypt or delete backups before triggering the main attack. Modern BDR therefore depends on immutable or air-gapped backup copies that cannot be altered, regular restore testing to confirm backups actually work, and a recovery plan that assumes the production environment is compromised.
Why Backup and Disaster Recovery Matters for Investment & Professional Firms
For DFW registered investment advisers, law firms, and accounting firms, an outage is not only an operational problem — it is a client-service and regulatory one. Investment firms must be able to access records and serve clients; recordkeeping rules assume data is preserved and retrievable. DKBinnovative provides investment-firm clients in Plano, Frisco, Irving, and Las Colinas with immutable backup, documented and tested recovery procedures, and defined recovery objectives as standard managed IT scope.