Disaster Recovery in Peachtree Corners, Georgia

Disaster Recovery Services for Peachtree Corners, GA Businesses

When a server failure, ransomware attack, or severe storm knocks your systems offline, the clock starts immediately. For businesses in Peachtree Corners and across Gwinnett County, COMNEXIA delivers documented, tested disaster recovery built around real recovery-time objectives (RTO) and recovery-point objectives (RPO), not vague promises. Headquartered in Roswell, GA since 1991, we have spent 35 years designing and validating DR programs for Atlanta-area companies, including auto dealerships whose DMS platforms cannot tolerate unplanned downtime.

What Disaster Recovery Actually Covers (and What It Does Not)

Disaster recovery is not a backup hard drive in a desk drawer. A genuine DR program defines exactly how long your business can be offline (RTO) and how much data it can afford to lose (RPO), then builds technical and procedural controls to meet those targets. COMNEXIA documents both figures in a signed service agreement so your operations team and ours share identical expectations before an incident occurs.

Backup is one component of DR. Recovery is the other, and it requires tested failover runbooks, not improvised troubleshooting at 2 a.m. Every DR engagement we deliver includes a written runbook that specifies, step by step, which systems come up first, in which order, and which engineer is responsible for each action.

The Backup Architecture COMNEXIA Deploys

We follow the 3-2-1 rule on every engagement: three copies of data, on two different media types, with one copy stored offsite. In practice, that means image-based backups captured by Veeam or Datto (selected based on your environment and RTO requirements), replicated to a secure cloud repository with immutable, air-gapped retention. Immutable storage means backup files cannot be encrypted, deleted, or altered by ransomware that has already compromised your production environment, because the backup target sits outside your writable network path entirely.

• Image-based backups via Veeam Backup and Replication or Datto BCDR appliances
• Onsite backup copy for fast local restore of individual files or full server images
• Offsite or cloud copy with immutable retention (object-lock or air-gapped repository)
• Documented RPO targets (commonly 1 to 4 hours for critical systems) and RTO targets agreed in writing before go-live
• Quarterly failover tests with pass/fail documentation reviewed with your team
• Written runbooks stored outside the production environment so they remain accessible during an outage

How This Applies to Peachtree Corners Auto Dealerships

Auto dealerships running CDK Global, Reynolds and Reynolds, or Dealertrack depend on their dealer management system for every deal, service ticket, and parts order. A DMS outage that runs past one business day can cost a dealership tens of thousands of dollars in paused transactions and frustrated customers. Beyond revenue, the FTC Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314, updated requirements effective June 2023) requires dealerships that qualify as financial institutions to maintain a written incident-response plan, which is a regulatory component that maps directly to a tested DR program. COMNEXIA builds the runbooks and retention policies to satisfy that requirement and keeps them current as the rule evolves.

Because CDK and Reynolds and Reynolds run on specific server and database configurations, our engineers document the exact restore sequence for those platforms, not a generic server restore. If your Dealertrack environment runs on a virtualized Windows Server host, your runbook will name that host, its backup schedule, its RTO target, and the precise steps to fail it over to a standby instance or cloud replica.

The Managed IT Foundation That Makes DR Work

A DR plan is only as reliable as the environment it protects. COMNEXIA manages endpoints and servers using NinjaOne RMM, which gives our team continuous visibility into patch status, disk health, and backup job results across your environment. Patch management through NinjaOne closes the vulnerabilities that ransomware exploits before they trigger a recovery event in the first place. Endpoint protection runs on SentinelOne EDR, which uses behavioral AI to stop fileless and script-based attacks that traditional antivirus misses. Identity security is enforced through Microsoft Entra ID conditional access policies that block authentication from unmanaged devices or unusual locations, limiting lateral movement if credentials are compromised.

Monthly reporting delivered to your leadership team includes backup job success rates, patch compliance percentages, and any open items from the most recent DR test. If a backup job fails, NinjaOne alerts our help desk and a ticket is opened and worked before your team is ever aware of the gap.

Get a Documented DR Assessment for Your Peachtree Corners Business

COMNEXIA will review your current backup configuration, document your actual RTO and RPO exposure, and identify gaps between what you have and what a tested recovery program requires. There is no cost to the initial assessment, and you will leave with a written gap analysis you can act on regardless of what you decide next. Call our team directly at (877) 600-6550 to schedule your assessment with an engineer who knows the Gwinnett County business environment and the specific platforms your industry runs on.