The underestimated gap between backup and recovery.
Secured. And Still Lost.
Companies invest in redundancy, mirroring, replication, and backup systems. And they still lose data – because backup and recovery are not the same thing.
The backup job runs green. Every day. For months.
And yet data is lost.
Because after a migration, the job was silently backing up to the wrong environment. Because the backup system was reachable from the same network that ransomware was in the process of encrypting. Because ten years of archive sat on a single copy – and that copy failed.
These situations are not worst-case scenarios for risk planning. They happened. Ontrack Data Recovery handled every one of these cases – in food production, medical technology, manufacturing, research, and law. In every case, a backup existed. In none of the seven cases was that enough.
What the white paper covers
Together, Ontrack and FAST LTA analysed seven of these cases: exactly what happened, why the available backup did not help, and which architecture would have made the difference.
- Seven real incidents across six industries – ransomware, migration errors, hardware failure, misconfiguration
- Which architecture makes the difference: physical air gap and software-independent immutability with Silent Bricks (FAST LTA, Made in Munich)
- A checklist of ten questions for assessing your own recovery readiness
- A maturity model in three levels – from basic backup to Zero Loss Architecture
- Measures for 30, 60, and 90 days
Most companies that call Ontrack after a data loss had no uneasy feeling beforehand. The backup job was running. The status was green. The checklist in the white paper asks ten questions that can change that – questions better answered today than after the incident.