Michael Paycer - SQL Server HA/DR, Backup and Restore Services
SQL Server Services

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.

Reliability Services

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.

HA/DR Checklist

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

Need help with SQL Server, cloud, ETL, or automation?

Contact Michael Paycer for practical SQL Server consulting, performance tuning, cloud support, IIS troubleshooting, ETL/API integration, custom programming, and ongoing DBA help.

Email: michael.paycer@gmail.com · Phone: (320) 761-9719