Backup & Disaster Recovery Service
Soma-Solutions
WHEN DID YOU LAST TEST WHETHER YOUR BACKUP ACTUALLY WORKS?
Most businesses have some form of backup running. Very few have ever tested whether it actually restores. The difference between those two things is the difference between a business that survives a disaster and one that does not. Soma Solutions' Backup & Disaster Recovery Service implements enterprise-grade, Azure-native data protection, and we prove it works before we hand it over.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
✔ Business Impact & Recovery Requirements Assessment We work with your business to determine Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for every critical system, how much downtime can you tolerate, and how much data can you afford to lose. This drives every design decision that follows.
✔ Backup Architecture Design Complete backup strategy designed for every workload, virtual machines, databases, file shares, and applications. Backup frequency, retention periods, and storage tiers (Hot, Cool, Archive) selected to match your RTO/RPO requirements and budget.
✔ Azure Backup Implementation Azure Backup deployed and configured for all in-scope workloads. Recovery Services Vault built with geo-redundant storage for maximum protection. Backup policies configured per workload type with appropriate retention schedules, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention points as required.
✔ Azure Site Recovery (Disaster Recovery) Implementation For mission-critical systems requiring true disaster recovery, not just backup, we implement Azure Site Recovery with continuous replication to a secondary Azure region. This enables full environment failover within minutes, not days.
✔ Database Backup & Point-in-Time Recovery Specific backup configuration for SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases including transaction log backups for point-in-time recovery, ensuring you can restore to any moment, not just the last full backup.
✔ Immutable Backup & Ransomware Protection Soft delete and immutability locks configured on all backup vaults, meaning even an attacker with administrative access cannot delete your backups. This is one of the most important and most overlooked protections against ransomware.
✔ Full Disaster Recovery Runbook A complete, tested, step-by-step disaster recovery runbook documenting exactly what to do, in what order, and who is responsible, for every failure scenario from a single server failure to a full regional outage.
✔ Live Failover Test & Restoration Proof We do not just configure backup and walk away. We perform an actual test failover of your disaster recovery environment and an actual test restoration of your backups — with documented evidence, so you have proof, not assumptions, that your systems can be recovered.
WHO THIS IS FOR
- Businesses with no tested disaster recovery plan, or one that has never been tested
- Organisations that have experienced data loss, ransomware, or extended downtime
- Businesses with compliance obligations requiring documented backup and recovery evidence
- IT teams that assume their backup works but have never had to prove it
WHY SOMA SOLUTIONS
- Certified Microsoft Solutions Professionals
- We test what we build, every implementation includes a live failover and restoration test
- Ransomware-resistant immutable backup configuration as standard
- South African team with POPIA data retention and residency expertise
- Fixed-scope delivery with milestone-based billing
From R65,000 | Timeline: 30–60 days | Contact us: info@soma-solutions.co.za