Disaster Recovery and Backup System Design Service
Industrial control systems, SCADA platforms, and business-critical data represent significant investment, yet many facilities have no formal plan for what happens if a server fails, a hard drive corrupts, or a site experiences fire, flooding, or theft. Pro-Logic Technologies designs disaster recovery and backup systems that protect this investment and keep operations recoverable when the unexpected happens.
Assessing What Needs Protection
Not every system carries the same recovery priority, and a disaster recovery plan built without this distinction tends to either under-protect critical systems or over-invest in protecting low-priority ones. Pro-Logic Technologies begins with an assessment of which systems — SCADA servers, historian databases, PLC program backups, ERP data — are most critical to resuming operations quickly, and designs recovery objectives around that priority rather than treating everything equally.
Backup Strategy and Redundancy
A sound backup strategy typically layers local backups for fast recovery from routine issues with offsite or cloud backups that protect against site-level events like fire or flooding. Pro-Logic Technologies designs backup schedules and retention policies matched to how frequently each system's data changes, and builds in redundancy for the most critical control system components so a single point of hardware failure doesn't halt production entirely.
Testing Recovery, Not Just Backup
A backup that has never been tested for restoration is an unverified assumption, not a working safeguard, and this gap is one of the most common failures in disaster recovery planning. Pro-Logic Technologies includes scheduled recovery testing as a standard part of its disaster recovery service, confirming that backups actually restore successfully and that recovery time objectives are realistic, rather than discovering problems only during an actual emergency.
Documentation and Recovery Procedures
Effective disaster recovery depends on more than technology — it requires clear, accessible documentation of recovery procedures that any qualified team member can follow under pressure, not just the one engineer who originally set up the system. Pro-Logic Technologies produces this documentation as part of every disaster recovery engagement, covering system architecture, backup locations, and step-by-step restoration procedures.
Disaster recovery planning is ultimately about reducing uncertainty during the worst moments of a facility's operation, replacing panic and improvisation with a tested, documented path back to running.