Revere’s Dynamics GP disaster recovery services are designed to meet a variety of business needs. Our services range from simple automated offsite backup services to comprehensive disaster recovery planning, implementation, testing and hosting services. We will work with your staff to identify the appropriate solutions for your specific Dynamics GP environment and requirements.
Revere’s Dynamics GP disaster recovery methodology (below) is used to identify processes, roles and responsibilities between Revere and our client. If a disaster strikes all parties know what to do and how to do it.
Revere’s Dynamics GP disaster recovery services align with our methodology and are described in the next section.
Dynamics GP Disaster Recovery (DR) Site Implementation
- Disaster recovery solution design
- Recovery Time Objective & Recovery Point Objective requirements
- Disaster site architecture designed to meet RTO/RPO objectives
- Replication and backup requirement definition
- Disaster plan creation
- Detailed disaster recovery plan
- Who does what, how and in what order when a disaster strikes
- Detailed communication plan
- Who declares a disaster and instantiates the DR plan?
- How do people communicate in the event of a disaster
Build out of the DR site
- Implement network, servers and software
- Implement replication and backup schedules
- Implement monitoring solution
DR Site Readiness
- Hosting of the Dynamics GP disaster recovery solution
- Active monitoring of replication and backups to ensure they’re successful
- Resolve replication/backup issues
- Coordination regarding changes in production that must be migrated to the DR site
- Migration of changes to the DR site
- Execution of DR plan and site testing
DR Plan Execution
- Execution of the steps defined in the DR plan
- Execution of the steps defined in the communication plan
- Turn over of the DR site to business users
DR Site Operations
- Support and maintain the DR site, while it’s used for production operations
- Planning for the replacement of the destroyed production site
DR Site Return to Readiness
- Reconfiguration of the DR site such that it’s ready for another disaster
- Testing of the DR site after the new production site is operational
Revere has a flexible approach model which allows you to use our services for some or all of your Dynamics GP disaster recovery needs.