SQL Server HA/DR, Backup and Restore Services
High availability and disaster recovery planning should be tested before an outage. This service focuses on recoverability, backup validation, failover planning, Always On, mirroring, replication, and practical recovery documentation.
Reduce risk before the outage happens.
Always On Availability Groups
Design, review, troubleshoot, and support Always On Availability Groups, replicas, listeners, failover planning, seeding, and operational monitoring.
Backup and Restore
Review backup coverage, retention, restore testing, point-in-time recovery, backup alerts, and practical recovery processes.
Disaster Recovery
Document RPO/RTO expectations, recovery steps, dependencies, validation tests, and business continuity considerations.
Database Mirroring
Support legacy mirroring environments, failover behavior, migration planning, monitoring, and replacement strategy when appropriate.
Replication
Support transactional replication, snapshot replication, distributor health, latency, job failures, and data movement issues.
Operational Readiness
Review SQL Agent jobs, alerts, Database Mail, monitoring, permissions, documentation, and handoff steps for support teams.
Important areas to review.
A database environment is only recoverable if the recovery path is understood, tested, documented, and monitored.
- Backup schedule, retention, and restore validation
- RPO and RTO expectations
- Always On Availability Group health and failover readiness
- Mirroring, replication, and data synchronization dependencies
- SQL Agent jobs, operators, alerts, and Database Mail
- Permissions, service accounts, and failover runbooks
- Recovery testing and documentation
- Production monitoring and escalation steps
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