Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for Melbourne Businesses

Backup gives you copies of your files that you restore after something goes wrong, which can take hours or days depending on the volume of data. DRaaS goes further: it keeps a ready-to-run replica of your systems offsite, so if your main environment goes down, we can fail over to that replica within a defined timeframe and keep your business running while the primary issue is fixed.

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is how long it takes to get your systems back online after a disaster. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is how much data you could lose, measured in time — for example, an RPO of 15 minutes means you’d lose at most 15 minutes of work. We agree both figures with you upfront based on how critical each system is, rather than applying one blanket number to everything.

Yes, that’s one of the most common reasons Melbourne businesses adopt it. Because replicas are kept isolated from your live network and include point-in-time snapshots, we can fail over to a clean, pre-infection copy of your systems rather than paying a ransom or rebuilding from scratch.

We schedule regular failover tests as part of every DRaaS plan, rather than leaving it untested until a real emergency. You’ll get a report after each test showing what worked, what didn’t, and any adjustments made — so you know the plan will actually work when it matters.

No. Cloud-based replication has made DRaaS realistic for small and medium Melbourne businesses too. We scale the recovery plan and infrastructure to match what you actually need to protect, rather than selling enterprise-grade capacity to a five-person office.

It depends on the RTO agreed for each system, but with a properly configured DRaaS plan, critical systems can typically be failed over within minutes to a few hours, rather than the days it can take to rebuild a server from scratch after a major failure.