08/27/2026
Backup Is Not Disaster Recovery. Here Is the Difference.
Does your agency have disaster recovery, or does it have backups? They are not the same thing, and the difference shows up at the worst possible moment.
Backup answers one question: is there a copy of the data? Disaster recovery answers the harder ones: how fast can systems come back, in what order, run by whom, from where?
An agency can have flawless backups and still be down for two weeks, because nobody defined which systems restore first, where they restore to, and who declares the emergency over.
Two numbers every agency should know for every critical system: how much data loss is tolerable (recovery point) and how much downtime is tolerable (recovery time). If nobody has written those down, the plan is a hope.
Compulink Technologies helps agencies across the Tri-State area turn backups into tested recovery capability, with procurement streamlined through established contract vehicles.
When did your team last restore from backup on purpose?
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