Windows Server Bare-Metal Recovery Readiness (Quarterly)

Overview

Each quarter, a Paso Robles Tech technician reviews recent boot-verification evidence, builds or validates recovery media, restores a full image of every eligible covered Windows Server into an isolated test environment, and measures the elapsed sandbox restore time. The technician checks startup, confirms that services and applications agreed in the Covered Systems Schedule start and are available, and restores and opens sample backed-up files. Results, evidence, measured time, issues, and recommended follow-up actions are documented in a written Recovery Readiness Report.

Key Capabilities

• Building fresh recovery media or validating that existing recovery media remains usable, then confirming that the restore tool can access the required network and storage resources in a test environment.
• Restoring the server image into an isolated test environment and checking agreed services and applications.
• Measuring the elapsed time from the start of the sandbox restore through the agreed validation point.
• Restoring sample files and confirming that they open.
• Providing a written Recovery Readiness Report with boot-verification evidence, measured sandbox restore time, results, issues, and recommended follow-up actions.

Supported Systems & Requirements

Package Availability

Limitations & Scope Notes

• An eligible server is a supported Windows Server listed in the Covered Systems Schedule, enrolled in a DEFENSE or GUARDIAN server plan, and protected by BackupGuard image backup.
• This readiness test does not include full functional testing of every application, database, or workflow; it is not a production recovery or a guarantee of recovery time or outcome.
• The measured sandbox restore time is evidence from that test, not a production recovery-time target or guarantee.
• Production failover, destructive restoration, and restoration to replacement hardware require express inclusion in the Service Order or separate written approval.
• Additional or different testing may be arranged through the Recovery Test Restore Exercise add-on.

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