Disaster Recovery
When a cyber-attack, system failure, or even a natural disaster threatens your company’s operations and revenue, a disaster recovery plan can be the difference between business downtime and business-as-usual.
The short answer
Backup and disaster recovery is three things: copies of your data, the infrastructure to bring systems back, and a tested plan that says in what order. NetSys builds all three — offline and immutable backups, recovery objectives set per system, and cloud failover we test on a schedule instead of assuming. Every NetSys client hit by ransomware has fully recovered; that is a 100% record. For one international food importer, the tested failover time for the ERP and SQL core that runs their business is 15 minutes, down from multi-day rebuilds.
Unexpected disruptions can strike at any time—hardware failures, cyberattacks, human error, or natural disasters. The NetSys Group provides comprehensive disaster recovery solutions that safeguard your critical systems and ensure your operations can continue, no matter what happens. We help you prepare, protect, and recover with confidence.
Be Ready for the Unexpected
Downtime is costly, and recovering without a plan can be even more damaging. Our disaster recovery services give you a reliable safety net, ensuring your data, applications, and essential systems are always protected. We design recovery strategies tailored to your environment, allowing you to bounce back quickly and minimize operational impact.
Our Disaster Recovery Services
Disaster Recovery Planning
A strong recovery starts with a clear, well-structured plan. We create customized disaster recovery strategies that outline every step needed to restore your systems and keep operations running.
- Full assessment of your current environment
- Business impact and risk analysis
- Recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) aligned with your needs
- System prioritization and recovery workflows
- Comprehensive documentation and testing schedules
Cloud-Based Backup Solutions
Modern threats require modern backups. We implement secure cloud and hybrid backup systems that protect your critical data and ensure quick restoration when needed.
- Encrypted cloud backups for critical files and systems
- Hybrid onsite/offsite backup strategies
- Automated scheduling and versioning
- Immutable and air-gapped backup options
- Continuous monitoring for backup success/failure
Rapid System Recovery & Failover
When outages occur, every minute counts. Our recovery solutions are built for speed, allowing your essential systems to fail over quickly and resume operation with minimal disruption.
- Fast virtual machine and server recovery
- Cloud failover for critical workloads
- Automated restoration of applications and databases
- Cross-site replication for high availability
- Step-by-step recovery processes managed by our team
Business Continuity Services
Disaster recovery is only part of the picture—continuity ensures your organization can keep functioning during an incident. We help create and maintain continuity strategies that support people, processes, and technology.
- Comprehensive continuity planning
- Remote access continuity for staff
- Alternate communication methods and workflows
- Coordination of critical vendor and service requirements
- Simulation exercises and readiness testing
Ongoing Monitoring & Validation
A recovery plan is only effective if it works in practice. We continuously monitor your backup and recovery systems and regularly validate their reliability.
- Daily backup verification
- Scheduled recovery testing
- Continuous health checks on backup systems
- Update and patch management for recovery tools
- Quarterly or annual plan reviews
Ransomware Recovery
The scenario every recovery plan is really written for. Every NetSys client hit by ransomware has fully recovered — a 100% record.
- Immediate isolation of affected devices so encryption stops spreading
- Restoration from offline, immutable backups the attacker cannot reach
- Recovery sequenced by business priority, not by whatever is easiest to restore
- Root-cause work to close the entry point that allowed the attack
- A documented incident timeline for leadership, counsel, and your insurer
Why Choose The NetSys Group for Disaster Recovery
Let The Netsys Group assess and help you resolve your exposure. Call 845-203-3914 for your complimentary risk assessment consultation today!
- Comprehensive coverage across backups, continuity, and recovery planning
- Cloud-ready and on-premise solutions built around your specific environment
- Fast, reliable restoration for critical systems and applications
- Proactive monitoring to ensure your recovery plan always stays up to date
- Seamless integration with your IT infrastructure and security strategy
- One trusted partner for planning, protection, and execution
- A 100% ransomware recovery record — every client hit has fully recovered
- Recovery times proven by scheduled tests, not vendor specifications — 15-minute tested failover for one importer's ERP and SQL core
- Offline and immutable backup copies that ransomware cannot reach or encrypt
- Continuity planning for the people and processes, not just the servers
- Month to month, like every NetSys agreement
Disaster Recovery FAQs
What's the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
Backups are copies of your data; disaster recovery is the tested plan and infrastructure that gets your business running again quickly — servers, applications, people, and communications, in a defined order.
How quickly could we recover from a total outage?
That's your recovery time objective (RTO), and we set it per system. Critical workloads typically fail over in minutes to a few hours — and we prove it with scheduled recovery tests, not assumptions.
Do you cover natural disasters like hurricanes?
Yes. We design for regional events using offsite, geo-redundant backups and cloud failover — directly relevant to both our Northeast and Southwest Florida clients.
What is disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)?
It is disaster recovery delivered as a managed service instead of a second site you buy, staff, and hope still works. We keep current replicas of your critical systems in the cloud, own the recovery runbook, run the scheduled tests, and execute the failover when something breaks. You get the recovery outcome without owning the recovery infrastructure — on the same month-to-month terms as every NetSys agreement.
How does ransomware recovery actually work?
Isolation first: affected devices come off the network so encryption stops spreading. Then we restore from offline, immutable backups the attacker could not reach, following recovery procedures we have already rehearsed, bringing systems back in business-priority order rather than alphabetically. Last, we close the entry point that let the attack in — recovery without that step just resets the clock. Every NetSys client hit by ransomware has fully recovered.
Should we pay the ransom?
Our clients have not had to. Every one hit by ransomware recovered from backups instead — which is exactly what the offline, immutable copy exists for. Paying assumes the attacker's decryption tool works, that they will hand it over, and that they did not already copy your data on the way out. Recovery you control assumes none of that.
How often do you test backups and recovery?
Backups are monitored and restores are tested on a schedule, per system. An untested backup is a hypothesis, not a plan. It is also why we quote recovery times as tested numbers rather than vendor specifications: the 15-minute failover on our international food importer's ERP and SQL core was measured, not spec'd.
What is the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery?
Disaster recovery is getting the technology back. Business continuity is keeping the business functioning while that happens — where people work, how they reach each other and your customers, which processes run manually, and who decides what. We plan both, because a four-hour recovery still costs you the four hours if nobody knew what to do during them.
Does this cover Microsoft 365 and other cloud data?
It should, and for our clients it does. Cloud platforms protect their own infrastructure; they do not protect your data from your own deletions, departures, or ransomware syncing encrypted files up from a laptop. We run independent cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 alongside server and application recovery, so the whole environment restores from copies you control.
Guides on this topic
- Backup and Disaster Recovery: 8 Questions SMBs Ask
- Why Ransomware Gangs Love Small Businesses
- The CrowdStrike Outage: 5 Business Continuity Lessons
- Hurricane Season IT Checklist for NY, NJ & Florida
- Case Study: 15-Minute Tested Failover for an Importer
- Security Assessments — Is Your Backup Actually Restorable?
Related services
Know your recovery time before you need it.
Immutable backups, a written recovery order that puts the systems you actually operate on first, and a restore we run and time — so “how long would we be down” has a measured answer rather than a hopeful one.