Why DR Planning is Critical for Saudi Businesses
Saudi organizations face diverse risks: cyberattacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, power outages, and human error. Without a tested disaster recovery (DR) plan, a major incident can cost businesses millions in downtime, data loss, and reputational damage.
RPO and RTO: Defining Your Requirements
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines how much data you can afford to lose. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) defines how quickly you need to be operational. SKYLINE helps you define RPO/RTO targets for each business system and designs backup architectures to meet them.
3-2-1 Backup Strategy
The gold standard: 3 copies of your data, on 2 different media types, with 1 copy offsite. We implement this using on-premises backup (Veeam, Acronis), local NAS/SAN replication, and cloud backup to AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage.
Failover & High Availability
For critical systems, we design active-passive or active-active failover clusters using VMware vSphere HA, Microsoft Failover Clustering, or cloud-based DR sites. Automatic failover ensures RTO of minutes, not hours.
DR Testing
A DR plan is only as good as its last test. SKYLINE conducts quarterly DR drills, simulating failure scenarios and measuring actual recovery times against targets.