FAQs
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We already have backups. Is that not enough?
A backup answers whether the data still exists. Continuity answers how long you are down and what it costs you while you are. Those are different problems. Plenty of businesses discover during an actual outage that their data was fine and it still took a week to be operational again.
How quickly could we be running again?
That gets set deliberately rather than assumed. During planning, critical systems are identified and each one gets a target recovery time based on what downtime actually costs you - the order line and the file server rarely deserve the same answer. The plan is built to those targets, then tested against them.
How do we know the backups actually work?
Because they get tested. Continuity plans go through regular validation exercises that restore from backup and confirm the recovery performs as designed, so gaps surface during a drill instead of during a real emergency. An untested backup is a hope, not a plan.
Can ransomware reach our backups?
That is exactly the scenario the design accounts for. Copies are kept both on-site for speed and in remote locations for isolation, so an attack that reaches your production environment does not reach every copy of your data. Backup integrity is monitored, not assumed.
What does business continuity cost?
BCDR is part of managed plans within the flat $100 to $250 per user per month, and it is one of the main reasons a business lands higher in that range. A full continuity plan for a complex environment, or a dedicated recovery site, is scoped separately. The comparison worth running is against a week of downtime, not against a line item.
