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Disaster Recovery Testing Services:
RTO and RPO Validation
Vervali rehearses your disaster recovery plan and measures it. We run planned and unannounced failover, restore from backup, test the runbook with the people who would actually be on the call, and time every step against the recovery time and recovery point objectives you have committed to. You receive an audit-ready record of what happened, what met the target and what did not.
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450+ projects
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CMMI Maturity Level 3The process is written down and repeats
ISO 9001:2015Quality management
ISO/IEC 27001Information security
What Disaster Recovery Testing Covers
A rehearsal of the recovery plan you already have, timed against the RTO and RPO you committed to.
Tabletop Walk-Through
The team talks it through and finds the missing phone number. Lowest disruption, lowest confidence. Right when the plan has never left the document.
Simulation
Components are failed in a controlled way. The finding is usually a dependency nobody wrote down, such as cloud identity that does not fail over with the app.
Parallel Test
Recovery runs alongside production without cutting over. You see whether the restore works without betting the live service, but failback is not in it.
Full Failover and Failback
The real thing, including coming back. Highest disruption, highest confidence. The quote names the window.
Backup Restore Verification
Proving the backups restore. A backup job that went green is not a restore. Implementation is on disaster recovery and backup.
Unannounced Failover
Planned and unannounced failover both sit in the quote. An unannounced test is a named line, not the default, and internal IT agrees to it first.
Need the failover timed against the RTO you committed to, not another plan on paper?
Book a DR TestValidating RTO and RPO Against What Was Promised
Recovery time and recovery point objectives are commitments to a board, an auditor or a customer contract, and almost nobody measures them.
RTO: How Long You Said You Could Be Down
We time each step of the recovery from the call to the service answering.
RPO: How Much Data You Said You Could Lose
We measure the actual data loss against the number you committed to.
The Gap Is the Deliverable
The report is the comparison between committed and achieved, not a pass mark. A restore that came back late with yesterday's data fails both.
Testing Cloud, On-Premises and Hybrid Recovery
What differs is where the recovery actually fails. AWS and Azure are the platforms Vervali builds on.
Cloud
Region failover, the services that do not fail over with you, and the identity dependency that stops recovery before it starts. Configuration evidence is on cloud security and compliance.
On-Premises
Hardware, tape and physical access. A restore that needs a person in the room is a finding, not a footnote.
Hybrid
The dependencies that cross the boundary, which is where hybrid recoveries fail. The quote names both sides.
Testing the Runbook and the People
A recovery plan is executed by people at three in the morning, often not the people who wrote it.
A Runbook Others Can Follow
Whether someone who did not write it can follow it, step by step.
Contacts and Credentials
Whether the contact list is current and the credentials in the vault still work.
Who Declares a Disaster
Whether anyone knows who makes the call. Internal IT and DevOps stay in the room, and we do not run a drill they did not agree to.
Already know who is on the call? A QA lead can scope the rehearsal.
Book a DR TestWhat the Audit Record Contains
What you can hand to an auditor, a board or an insurer, written as evidence rather than a slide.
Scenario and Timeline
The scenario and the timeline with timestamps.
Met and Missed
What met the objective, what did not, and the gaps.
Remediation With Owners
Each fix has an owner. On a banking engagement, audit preparation went from 5 days to 5 hours once a dated pack existed.
Recoveries Tested, Not Certified
We test those recoveries and produce the evidence. We do not issue a certificate. Control-by-control software evidence is on compliance testing.
How Often to Test, and What Triggers an Unscheduled Test
Annually is the usual answer and it is not enough.
Architecture Changes
A major architecture change, a cloud migration or a new critical dependency.
Business Events
An acquisition, a failed audit, or a change in the recovery objectives themselves.
A Cadence After We See the Estate
Critical systems get a rehearsal after those changes, not only on a calendar. The quote names the cadence.
Proof From Delivery
Recovery work that sat inside larger engagements, sector and country. These were not standalone disaster-recovery tests.
Australia · cybersecurity SaaS · DDoS simulation
A cybersecurity SaaS product under high-intensity DDoS simulation. After: 99.9% platform stability on that run. How it fails, and what it costs to absorb that failure, is the recovery question.
99.9% platform stabilityBanking · audit preparation
Before: audit preparation took five days of assembling screenshots. After: a dated evidence pack, from 5 days to 5 hours. The same pack shape is what a recovery rehearsal has to leave behind.
5 days to 5 hoursIndia · Chennai diagnostics chain · back end
The back end of a diagnostics chain: the integrations and the load patient volume actually produces. A recovery plan that ignores that estate is a slide.
How an Engagement Starts
From a plan on paper to a rehearsal you can show an auditor.
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Share the Plan
Tell us the recovery plan, the RTO and RPO you committed to, and the people who would be on the call.
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Choose the Level
We agree which of the five test levels fits, from tabletop to full failover and failback, and the window.
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Start With a Plan Review
A free review of your current recovery plan is the first look. Most engagements land at $25 to $49 an hour blended, and price follows the level you choose.
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Get the Audit Record
The timeline, what met the target, the gaps and remediation with owners, 9am to 1pm Eastern with delivery from India.
Frequently Asked Questions
A rehearsal of the recovery plan you already have: failover, restore from backup, the runbook with the people who would be on the call, and every step timed against your RTO and RPO. You receive an audit-ready record of what met the target and what did not. Implementation is on disaster recovery and backup.
Tabletop walk-through, simulation, parallel test, full failover and failback, and backup restore verification. Cost and confidence rise in that order. Restore verification is the one most organisations have never done, and a backup job that went green is not a restore. All five are available when they are in the quote.
Disaster recovery testing covers the systems: failover, restore, runbook and the RTO and RPO you committed to. Business continuity also includes people, processes and third parties outside IT. We rehearse the systems side, and a free plan review shows which part of your plan needs which kind of test.
RTO is the maximum downtime you committed to, and RPO is the maximum data loss. We time each step, measure the actual data loss and report the gap between committed and achieved. The deliverable is that comparison, not a pass mark. A restore that came back late with yesterday's data fails both.
Annually is the usual answer and it is not enough. Triggers for an extra test are a major architecture change, a cloud migration, a new critical dependency, an acquisition, a failed audit and a change in the objectives themselves. The quote names the cadence after we see the estate.
Yes, on the environments you name: region failover, the services that do not fail over with you, and the identity dependency that stops recovery before it starts. AWS and Azure are the platforms Vervali builds on, and hybrid is added when both sides are in scope. See cloud security and compliance.
Yes. They stay in the room, because the runbook is executed by the people who would actually be on the call, often not the people who wrote it. We do not run a drill they did not agree to. An unannounced test is a named line in the quote, not the default.
Most engagements land at $25 to $49 an hour blended. Price follows the level you choose: tabletop, simulation, parallel test, full failover or restore verification. Full failover costs more in disruption than in hours. A free review of your current recovery plan shows the surface before anyone writes a quote.
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