Server Disaster Recovery

The Service

Traditionally, comprehensive disaster recovery has been a cost prohibitive service to most businesses.

PCM Server Disaster Recovery is a unique and innovative service that has been designed to bridge the gap between data backups and the process of data restoration in a fully operational system.

This service ensures that a business can continue to operate in the event of a disaster, with minimal downtime as the whole operating system is backed up, in addition to the data stored within these operating systems. Server Disaster Recovery acts as a complete replication of a server including operating system software and data.

How Server Disaster Recovery Works

The service is set up by installing software on your chosen server/s and scheduling backups to a storage device provided by PCM. The data from this device is then replicated to an offsite server maintained by PCM. All of the replicated data is encrypted and password protected to maintain security.

In the event of server disaster, restoration can be carried out on the original server (if it is in working condition) or on a new server provided by PCM. PCM can also facilitate the use of a new server temporarily, should it be problematic to use the original premises.

Maintenance of the service

  • The backups are monitored daily, generating functionality reports.
  • PCM carry out checks to ensure that files and data have not become corrupted in order to allow the service to run without problems.
  • Every three months, PCM conduct a test restoration in order to verify the success of the server replication.

Key Benefits of Server Disaster Recovery

Minimal Downtime: The main problem in an event of a server disaster is the large amount of time that staff would be unable to work. Server Disaster Recovery means that this amount of time is vastly reduced.

Flexibility: The service means that restoration of a server can be provided across a range of types of disaster, including hardware problems, software problems, user errors, system errors, etc.

Support: Such a disaster can be disruptive on many fronts. The PCM team react quickly to provide data restoration and are also on hand to offer advice on practical and business process implications.

Compliance: This service will assist many organisations in keeping within their associations’ compliance requirements and guidelines.

Budget Planning: The fixed monthly cost ensures business continuity and thereby protects against any large erroneous costs in event of disaster.

Maintaining reputation: Losing data and being unable to continue business will have a detrimental effect to a company’s reputation, with many customers opting to go elsewhere due to a loss of confidence in your company. By protecting against such disasters, a company can protect against such effects