Situation 02 / 08 — Platform risk

Disaster recovery and continuity

If this machine dies, how long is the plant down?

Many legacy environments have backups. Far fewer have a recovery. Salem is called when someone finally asks what happens after the failure — and discovers the answer depends on hardware that cannot be bought and a restore procedure that nobody has ever run end to end.

Sound familiar

How Salem approaches it

01 Establish a recoverable target

Emulated environments on modern hardware give legacy workloads something to fail over to. Salem builds the target first, because a recovery plan without a destination is a document, not a capability.

02 Prove the restore actually works

Salem runs the recovery, times it, and documents the procedure so that someone other than the original author can execute it. The tested number replaces the assumed one.

03 Use the standby environment for more than disasters

The same environment becomes the test bed the organization never had — which is what makes patching, upgrades, and eventual migration safe to attempt.

Related services

Platform migration

Modern application support

Has a restore ever been tested?

The honest answer is usually no.

Describe the environment and the tolerance for downtime. Salem will tell you what recovery is achievable today and what it takes to shorten it.