Policy-driven coverage
Backup posture is expressed as an operational policy rather than tribal knowledge: what is protected, how often it is captured, and what evidence is retained for audit and customer review.
Backup & Recovery
Resilience that is documented, tested, and operator-visible
47Dynamics treats backup and recovery as an operational system, not a checkbox. The platform combines policy-driven backups, explicit restore paths, recovery objectives, and repeatable disaster-recovery drills so MSP teams can prove resilience before an incident forces the test.
What operators manage in 47Dynamics
Restore-ready operations
Recovery is defined by explicit service-level restore paths, not vague recovery promises. Database, cache, secret store, and identity services each have documented restore methods and expected time-to-recover windows.
Evidence from drills
Quarterly disaster-recovery drills validate that backups, service health, cross-VM connectivity, and deployment artifacts are sufficient to rebuild the platform under pressure.
Production backup schedule
| Schedule | Protected service | Method | Retention / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily 02:00 UTC | PostgreSQL | Structured dump via pg_dump | Rolling retention with log evidence |
| Daily 02:30 UTC | Redis | BGSAVE snapshot plus protected copy | Rolling retention with backup log trail |
| Daily 03:00 UTC | Vault | Vault snapshot archive | Rolling retention plus checksum verification |
| Weekly Sunday 04:00 UTC | Keycloak | Realm export for identity recovery | Rolling retention plus import validation |
Operational evidence is written to the backup log path and used during recovery review and drill verification.
Recovery objectives by service
Fast restore paths
- PostgreSQL: restore from structured dump, expected recovery in minutes
- Redis: restore snapshot, expected recovery in seconds
- Vault: unseal plus snapshot restore, expected recovery in minutes
- Keycloak: realm import, expected recovery in minutes
Why this matters commercially
Recovery design is part of service delivery quality. MSP customers do not only buy monitoring and automation; they buy confidence that the operating platform itself can be restored, verified, and brought back under control quickly.
Disaster-recovery drill model
22 checks across 8 categories
The drill verifies backup integrity, service health, rebuild readiness, Keycloak export validity, cross-VM connectivity, and backup automation configuration instead of checking just one restore command.
Quarterly validation rhythm
Resilience is tested on a recurring cadence and after infrastructure change, so recovery confidence is maintained as the platform evolves rather than assumed from old procedures.
Rebuild from artifacts
The runbook validates that compose definitions, environment files, image availability, and service dependencies are sufficient to rebuild the stack, not just restore isolated data sets.
Assess resilience the same way you assess security or SLA performance
A serious MSP platform should expose backup scope, restore method, drill cadence, and recovery objectives clearly. We can map your current recovery posture to the 47Dynamics model and show where resilience becomes measurable instead of assumed.
