Database & Cloud Backup Recovery Engineering
Making restores work before you need them — point-in-time recovery, cloud snapshot restoration, dependency reconstruction and the rehearsal that turns an assumed RTO into a measured one.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
What's covered
- Database restore and point-in-time recovery design and testing
- Cloud snapshot and volume recovery procedures
- Backup validation: does the backup restore, not merely complete
- Dependency reconstruction — the services a restored database needs to be useful
- Cross-region and cross-account recovery design
- RPO and RTO analysis measured against tested reality
- Restoration runbooks written to be followed under pressure
- Recovery rehearsal with your team
What you receive
- Restoration runbooks for each critical system
- Measured RPO and RTO from actual tested restores
- Backup validation report identifying which backups are not restorable
- Dependency map for recovery sequencing
- Rehearsal results with timings and the problems found
- Improvement recommendations prioritised by risk
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Written scope firstAdvisory work runs to a written scope agreed before it starts, so what you receive is what was agreed.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- We can only recover from backups that exist and are readable
- Testing establishes measured figures at a point in time, not a guarantee
- Cloud provider outages and platform limits are outside our control
- Data created after the last recoverable backup cannot be recovered by anyone
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- Our backups run green every night. Is that enough?
- A backup job succeeding proves a file was written. It does not prove the file restores, that the restore completes inside your RTO, or that the restored database is usable without services nobody documented. The gap between those is where most recovery failures live.
- How often should restores be tested?
- Quarterly for critical systems, and after any significant architecture change. The value is less in the pass and more in what the rehearsal surfaces — the missing credential, the undocumented dependency, the step that assumed a person who has left.
- What is the most common surprise?
- RTO. Teams quote four hours and measure eleven, because the estimate covered the database restore and not the DNS, the certificates, the queue drain, the cache warm and the person who has to be woken up to approve it.
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