Disaster Recovery in McDonough, Georgia

Disaster Recovery Services for McDonough, GA Businesses

When a ransomware attack locks your files, a power surge kills your server, or a severe storm knocks out your Henry County office, the clock starts immediately. COMNEXIA has delivered managed IT and disaster recovery services to Georgia businesses since 1991, headquartered in Roswell, GA. We build and test recovery plans that define exactly how fast your systems come back online, not in rough estimates, but in documented Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) that you review and sign off on before a crisis happens.

What Disaster Recovery Actually Means for a McDonough Business

Disaster recovery is not a backup drive sitting in a desk drawer. It is a documented, tested sequence of steps that restores your servers, applications, and data to a usable state within a defined window. For a professional services firm or auto dealership on GA-20 or Jonesboro Road, "usable" means your DMS is processing deals, your accounting software is posting transactions, and your staff can reach their files. Without a tested runbook, recovery devolves into improvisation that stretches hours into days.

Image-Based Backup With Veeam and Datto

COMNEXIA deploys image-based backups using Veeam Backup and Replication and Datto BCDR appliances. Image-based means we capture the entire server state, operating system, applications, and data, so we can spin up a virtual machine from that snapshot rather than reinstalling software from scratch. Datto appliances run local virtualization within minutes of a failure, then replicate encrypted copies to Datto's cloud infrastructure. Veeam environments replicate to a secondary site or Azure-based recovery vault depending on your architecture.

Every deployment follows the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of your data, on two different media types, with one copy stored offsite. We add immutable storage, meaning backup files cannot be modified or deleted by ransomware or a compromised admin account, for a defined retention window. Air-gapped copies are maintained on Datto's hardened cloud nodes, which are logically separated from your production network credentials.

Documented RPO and RTO Targets

Before we deploy anything, we produce a written Business Impact Analysis that identifies your critical workloads, assigns them recovery tiers, and sets numeric RPO and RTO targets. A typical configuration for a small Henry County business might specify an RPO of one hour (meaning no more than one hour of data loss) and an RTO of four hours for critical servers. Those numbers drive backup job frequency, replication schedules, and failover procedures. They are not marketing language; they are thresholds we build your runbook around.

Failover Runbooks and Annual Testing

A runbook is a step-by-step procedure document covering who does what, in what order, using which credentials, to bring each system back online. COMNEXIA writes and owns that document for your environment. We schedule at least one tabletop and one live failover test per year, initiating a recovery from backup in a sandboxed environment and timing the result against your RTO. If the test misses the target, we adjust backup frequency, replication topology, or server sizing before you need it in a real event.

Disaster Recovery for Auto Dealerships Using CDK Global, Reynolds and Reynolds, or Dealertrack

Auto dealerships in Henry County running CDK Global, Reynolds and Reynolds, or Dealertrack face a specific problem: DMS outages halt deal contracting, service write-ups, and parts ordering simultaneously. The FTC Safeguards Rule, which applies to dealerships as financial institutions under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, requires a written incident response plan that includes data recovery procedures. COMNEXIA builds DR plans that address DMS backup separately from general file servers, because CDK and Reynolds environments have their own data paths and restore procedures that differ from a standard Windows Server recovery. We document those procedures explicitly in your runbook rather than treating the DMS as a generic application.

How COMNEXIA Manages Your Environment Day to Day

Disaster recovery does not function in isolation. COMNEXIA monitors your servers and endpoints continuously using NinjaOne RMM, which flags disk health degradation, failed backup jobs, and replication errors before they become outages. Patch management runs on a documented monthly cadence to close vulnerabilities that ransomware exploits. Endpoint protection runs SentinelOne EDR, which detects and isolates behavioral threats rather than relying solely on signature matching. Monthly reports show backup job success rates, patch compliance percentages, and any alerts that triggered remediation during that period.

Get a Disaster Recovery Assessment for Your McDonough Business

• Written RPO and RTO targets matched to your actual critical workloads
• Veeam or Datto image-based backup with immutable, air-gapped offsite copies
• Step-by-step failover runbook covering your specific servers and applications
• Annual tested failover with documented results against your RTO
• DMS-specific recovery procedures for CDK Global, Reynolds and Reynolds, or Dealertrack environments
• Continuous monitoring via NinjaOne RMM and SentinelOne EDR

COMNEXIA serves businesses throughout McDonough, Stockbridge, and Henry County from our Roswell, GA headquarters. Call us at (877) 600-6550 to schedule a no-obligation disaster recovery assessment and find out exactly how long your business would take to recover today.