Business continuity
Disaster recovery as a service for South African businesses and MSPs
Orchestrated cloud failover, defined recovery objectives and tested recoverability — with local infrastructure in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Beyond backup
Backup protects data. Disaster recovery protects operations.
When critical systems go down — whether from ransomware, hardware failure, or infrastructure disruption — backup alone does not bring them back to a running state within minutes or hours. Disaster recovery orchestrates the failover of full systems to standby cloud infrastructure, with defined time objectives and tested runbooks.
Orchestrated failover
Automated runbooks sequence the failover of production workloads to cloud recovery servers, reducing manual steps and human error during an incident.
Defined RTO and RPO
Recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives are configured per workload — so critical systems recover first with minimal data loss.
Recovery testing
Non-disruptive recovery tests validate that backup data can be restored to a running state, proving recoverability before an incident occurs.
Ransomware recovery
Immutable backup copies and clean restore points enable recovery from ransomware without paying a ransom or relying on decryption.
Local infrastructure
Recovery servers run on Soteria Cloud's Teraco-hosted infrastructure in Johannesburg and Cape Town, keeping failover within South African borders.
Unified management
DR is managed through the same Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud console as backup, endpoint and security — one platform for the full resilience stack.
Recovery objectives
RTO and RPO — the numbers that define resilience
Every workload has a cost of downtime and an acceptable level of data loss. Disaster recovery turns those business decisions into technical configurations — so when an incident happens, recovery is automated, not improvised.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
How quickly must this system be running again? Minutes, hours or the next business day?
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
How much data can the organisation afford to lose? The last 15 minutes, the last hour, or the last day?
Proving recoverability
A disaster-recovery plan that has never been tested is a hypothesis, not a control. Regular non-disruptive testing validates that defined RTOs and RPOs are achievable with real data on real infrastructure.
- Automated test failover in an isolated environment
- Validation that workloads boot and respond correctly
- Evidence reports for governance, audit and cyber insurance
- Identification of configuration drift before it matters
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
Backup protects data by creating copies that can be restored. Disaster recovery goes further — it enables entire systems (servers, applications, operating systems) to be brought back to a running state within defined time objectives, often on standby cloud infrastructure.
What do RTO and RPO mean?
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum acceptable downtime after an incident. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum acceptable data loss measured in time — for example, an RPO of 1 hour means you could lose up to 1 hour of data. Both are configured per workload.
Can disaster recovery be tested without affecting production?
Yes. Non-disruptive recovery tests spin up workloads in an isolated environment, validate that they function correctly, then shut down — without impacting live production systems.
Where do recovery servers run?
Through Soteria Cloud, disaster recovery infrastructure is hosted in Teraco data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town, providing local failover without depending on offshore infrastructure.
How does this help with ransomware?
Immutable backup copies cannot be altered or deleted by ransomware. When an attack occurs, clean restore points allow recovery to a pre-infection state without paying a ransom.
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Prove your recoverability before an incident proves it for you
Speak to Soteria Cloud about disaster recovery for your business or MSP practice.