"Unfortunately, disasters happen. For companies to survive them, they must ensure that their disaster recovery and business continuity plans follow best practices. Disaster recovery management solutions such as Continuity Software's RecoverGuard will soon become a 'must have' versus a 'nice to have' on any comprehensive DR plan."
Mike Karp, Senior Analyst
Enterprise Management Associates
Disaster Recovery Testing
Automatically Uncover Risks to Recoverability
A disaster recovery test should demonstrate how well business operations can be transferred to a remote facility to get the organization back online after a disaster or unexpected outage. Most companies simply don’t have the time or resources required to perform by-the-book DR tests and instead minimize the scope of their tests.
The end result is always the same: incomplete test results can leave critical applications at risk.
How RecoverGuard Can Help
RecoverGuard automatically detects data protection and availability risks that often go undetected, ensuring a higher level of DR readiness and enhancing the overall effectiveness of your traditional DR tests.
- Automatic Gap Detection: RecoverGuard scans storage, databases, servers and replication configurations for gaps or configuration errors that traditional DR tests miss, such as unprotected databases or database partitions, noncompliant replication configurations, and data that cannot be recovered to a valid consistency point.
- Ongoing Monitoring: RecoverGuard provides more robust protection between full tests, detecting potential configuration problems when they occur so you can address them before they impact production availability.
- Comprehensive Analysis: Once the data is collected, RecoverGuard uses its gap signature knowledgebase of thousands of potential data protection gaps to automatically detect potential gaps and best-practice violations. This is the equivalent of performing millions to tens of millions of manual comparisons.
- Remediation Recommendations: When a gap match is identified, RecoverGuard issues a ticket with a detailed description of the risk, its impact and a suggested remediation approach.

