DOYB Services
Backups that have never been verified against a defined RTO and RPO are assumptions — not recovery capabilities. DOYB builds and tests your disaster recovery posture before you need it.
The Reality
Backup jobs that run without integrity verification are assumptions. Disaster recovery plans that have never been tested are documents. And RTO/RPO targets that were set years ago without being validated against actual recovery tests are hopes — not commitments. The gap between what organizations believe their recovery capability is and what it actually is rarely surfaces until an incident forces the test.
The cost of discovering backup failures during a ransomware recovery or hardware failure is orders of magnitude higher than the cost of systematic verification and tested recovery procedures. The investment in backup and DR is only realized if it actually works when needed.
estimated cost per minute of IT infrastructure downtime — a widely cited baseline for understanding the financial impact of unplanned outages. Gartner / Andrew Lerner, 2014
of IT outages in 2024 cost organizations more than $1 million — direct costs, recovery labor, and business disruption combined. Uptime Institute 2024 Resiliency Survey
average cost of a data breach in 2024 — organizations without tested recovery capabilities consistently take longer to restore operations, compounding total costs. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024
How DOYB Approaches It
Every DOYB backup and DR engagement begins with the Ascend Infrastructure assessment — which evaluates your current backup architecture, verifies recovery time realism against your actual system dependencies, and identifies the gaps between what your DR plan says and what your environment can actually deliver.
From there, we build and test a recovery capability that matches your business — with defined RTO/RPO targets, system tiers that reflect actual business impact, verified backup integrity, and runbooks written to work when the people who built the system aren't in the room.
Tested recovery is the only recovery that counts
DOYB conducts structured DR tests — tabletop exercises and technical failover tests — that validate whether documented procedures actually produce the expected recovery results. Every test produces a written outcome report with identified gaps and remediation actions.
What's Included
Each capability is available as part of a comprehensive backup and DR program or scoped as a standalone engagement based on your current gaps.
Backup scheduling, integrity verification, and alert monitoring across on-premises and cloud environments — so you know every day whether your data is actually recoverable, not just that a job ran.
Ask about this capabilityDocumented DR plans with defined RTO/RPO targets, system priority tiers, stakeholder notification procedures, and recovery sequences — not a generic template with your company name on it.
Ask about this capabilityStructured disaster recovery exercises that validate recovery procedures against actual recovery time targets — because an untested DR plan is a theoretical document, not an operational capability.
Ask about this capabilityProcess-level continuity plans that address how operations continue when systems are unavailable — covering manual procedures, communication plans, and decision authorities during a disruption.
Ask about this capabilityGeographically separated backup copies with documented recovery procedures for cloud-based restoration — ensuring your backup infrastructure isn't co-located with the systems it's meant to protect.
Ask about this capabilityDetailed, step-by-step recovery documentation written to work when the people who built the system aren't available — system-level procedures, access instructions, and decision trees for each recovery scenario.
Ask about this capabilityWhy It Matters
Ransomware actors specifically target backup infrastructure before deploying encryption. Organizations with untested, poorly isolated backups that haven't been validated often discover during recovery that their backup data is also encrypted, corrupted, or inaccessible. The organizations that recover fastest are those with verified, isolated backup copies and tested runbooks.
DOYB's approach to backup and DR treats recovery capability as a business requirement — not an IT checkbox. That means defined targets, verified backups, tested procedures, and regular review cycles that keep recovery plans current as your environment changes.
Learn about Ascend InfrastructureCompliance frameworks require documented recovery capability
HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST CSF, and PCI DSS all include specific backup and recovery requirements. A backup and DR program built to DOYB standards simultaneously addresses compliance obligations and actual business risk.
Cloud backup is not the same as a DR plan
Many organizations have cloud backup configured without knowing their actual recovery time, without documented restoration procedures, and without testing whether the data actually restores correctly. Backup infrastructure is the starting point — not the finish line.
Start with the infrastructure assessment
The Ascend Infrastructure assessment evaluates your current backup and recovery posture as part of a broader infrastructure review. It identifies gaps before a recovery event forces you to find them.
Cloud backup and disaster recovery are closely connected — offsite replication architecture depends on your cloud environment being properly designed and managed.
Learn moreBackup verification and DR testing are components of a managed IT program — not standalone exercises done once a year and then forgotten.
Learn moreThe infrastructure assessment identifies backup gaps, undocumented dependencies, and recovery time mismatches that define what your DR program needs to address first.
Learn moreStart With Structure
The Ascend Infrastructure assessment gives you a structured evaluation of your current state — documented gaps, prioritized risk, and a clear roadmap before any engagement begins. No assumptions. No guesswork.
