Disaster Recovery on Catalogic Software

Planning Immutable Storage: What to Keep Local, What to Replicate, and How to Prove It Works

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A protected snapshot nobody can find during an incident is not a recovery capability. If you are designing immutable storage rather than reading about it, two decisions do most of the damage when they go wrong: what belongs where, and whether anyone has proven the restore runs. Both are answerable on paper, before a purchase order exists.

What should stay local, be replicated, or be archived?

Start from recovery intent, because each copy is doing a different job.

Bare Metal Recovery (BMR): What It Is and How It Works

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Bare metal recovery (BMR) is the process of restoring a complete computer system onto a machine that has no operating system installed. One BMR restore brings back the operating system, applications, configuration, and data together from a single system-level backup image, so nobody has to install Windows or Linux first and then layer the data back on afterwards.

What is bare metal recovery (BMR)?

The name describes the state of the target. Bare metal is hardware with nothing on it, no operating system, no drivers, no middleware. A wiped server counts. So does a freshly created virtual machine, which is why BMR is just as relevant to virtualized estates as it is to physical ones.

Catalogic vStor A Modern Software-Defined Backup Storage Platform

Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Here at Catalogic we can’t stress enough that having solid backups isn’t just important -it’s essential. But what happens when the backups themselves become targets? We’ve built a modern storage solution to address exactly that concern. That means that DPX customers are in a particularly fortunate position. Rather than having to shop around for a compatible backup storage solution, they get vStor included right in the DPX suite. This means they automatically benefit from enterprise-grade features like data deduplication, compression, and most importantly, robust immutability controls that can lock backups against unauthorized changes.

7 Backup Mistakes Companies still making in 2025

Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Backup strategies tend to fail in the same handful of ways. The seven below come up again and again in small and mid-sized environments, and most of them stay invisible until someone attempts a restore and finds out what was missing. Each section covers what goes wrong and what to do instead.

1. Assuming All Data is Equally Important

Treating every dataset as equally important is the most common starting error. It wastes resources on data nobody would rush to restore, and it leaves the data they would rush to restore competing for the same window.

Mastering RTO and RPO: Metrics Every Backup Administrator Needs To Know

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Two numbers govern most of what a backup administrator does. The first is how long the business can be down after a failure, and the second is how much data it can afford to lose. Those are the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and they sit at the centre of any disaster recovery plan worth the name. They get confused with each other constantly, because both are expressed in units of time and both get tighter as the system gets more important. They measure different things.