Disaster Recovery in Marietta, Georgia

Disaster Recovery Services for Marietta, GA Businesses

When a ransomware attack encrypts your file server at 2 a.m., or a power surge at your Marietta office kills a RAID controller mid-business-day, the question is not whether you have a backup. The question is how fast you can recover and whether that recovery has ever been tested. COMNEXIA, headquartered in Roswell, GA and operating for 35 years, builds documented, tested disaster recovery programs for Cobb County businesses, including auto dealerships running CDK Global, Reynolds and Reynolds, and Dealertrack whose uptime obligations and FTC Safeguards Rule compliance requirements leave no room for improvised recovery attempts.

What Disaster Recovery Actually Means for a Marietta Business

Disaster recovery is not a backup drive sitting in a desk drawer. It is a combination of image-based backups, documented recovery time objectives (RTO), documented recovery point objectives (RPO), offsite and air-gapped storage, and a runbook that a technician can execute under pressure without calling a vendor for instructions. COMNEXIA defines these targets with you before a failure occurs, not after. A typical Marietta professional services firm might accept an RTO of four hours and an RPO of one hour. A dealership DMS environment running Reynolds and Reynolds may require an RTO measured in minutes because a downed DMS stops service lane write-ups and finance contracting cold.

The Backup Architecture COMNEXIA Deploys

COMNEXIA builds every client's backup stack on the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of data, on two different media types, with one copy offsite. In practice this means image-based backups captured by Veeam or Datto, writing to a local backup appliance for fast restores, replicating encrypted copies to a geographically separate cloud repository, and maintaining immutable, air-gapped snapshots that cannot be deleted or encrypted by ransomware even if an attacker gains domain administrator credentials. Datto SIRIS appliances, for example, support instant virtualization directly on the appliance, meaning a failed server can be booted as a virtual machine in minutes while the physical hardware is repaired or replaced.

• Image-based backups capture the full OS, applications, and data, not just selected folders, so a bare-metal restore or virtual boot is possible without reinstalling software.
• Backup jobs run on a schedule aligned to your documented RPO, commonly every one to four hours for critical servers.
• Immutable cloud retention policies prevent any backup from being modified or deleted during the defined retention window, even by a compromised admin account.
• Veeam SureBackup automated recovery verification tests each restore point by booting the VM in an isolated sandbox and confirming the application layer responds correctly.
• Datto's encrypted WAN sync replicates to Datto's cloud infrastructure, providing an offsite copy outside your Marietta or Cobb County network perimeter.

Tested Failover Runbooks, Not Promises

A documented failover runbook specifies, step by step, which systems get recovered first, who authorizes the failover, which technician executes each step, and how the business verifies the recovered environment before staff reconnects. COMNEXIA writes and maintains these runbooks as a living document, updated whenever infrastructure changes. We then schedule tabletop and live failover tests, typically quarterly, to confirm that RTOs documented on paper are actually achievable. A dealership on CDK Global, for instance, needs its DR runbook to address CDK's cloud-hosted DMS connectivity separately from locally hosted ancillary systems like phone or document scanning, because those have different recovery paths.

How Disaster Recovery Connects to the FTC Safeguards Rule for Dealerships

Auto dealerships in Marietta subject to the FTC Safeguards Rule are required to maintain a written information security program that includes procedures for detecting, responding to, and recovering from security events. A tested, documented DR program with defined RTO and RPO targets, immutable backups, and incident response integration directly satisfies that requirement. COMNEXIA's security-first approach means DR documentation is built to withstand a regulatory review, not just an internal audit.

How the Engagement Works

COMNEXIA begins every DR engagement with a business impact analysis that inventories critical systems, maps dependencies, and documents acceptable downtime per application. From that analysis we specify backup frequency, retention schedules, and recovery sequence. Ongoing, we manage backup health through NinjaOne RMM, which alerts our team if a backup job fails or a replication lag exceeds threshold before you notice a problem. Monthly reporting includes backup job success rates, last verified restore point per system, and any exceptions. You receive a report you can hand to your CFO or, if you are a dealership, to an FTC examiner.

Get a Disaster Recovery Assessment for Your Marietta Business

If you cannot state your current RTO and RPO from memory, or if your last backup restore test was more than six months ago, your business carries more risk than it needs to. COMNEXIA serves Marietta, Cobb County, and the broader metro Atlanta area from our Roswell, GA headquarters. Call us at (877) 600-6550 to schedule a no-obligation disaster recovery assessment and find out exactly where your gaps are before a failure does.