01 / Cadence
Daily snapshots
Every site, every database, every config — snapshotted nightly and retained on a rolling schedule.
Backups & disaster recovery
3-2-1 backups, off-site cold storage, tested restore drills.
A backup that’s never been restored isn’t a backup. YesGov runs three copies on two media types with one off-site, snapshots daily, exercises the restore on a documented cadence, and hands you the runbook your insurer wants to see before they renew.
What we run
Backups designed to survive ransomware.
The Baltimore, MD outage cost $18M and ran for months. Tested 3-2-1 backups make recovery measured in hours.
02 / Media
Two media types
Hot block storage on the production cluster + cold object storage on a separate tier. A failure on one doesn’t reach the other.
03 / Geography
One off-site copy
Off-site replication to a geographically separate region. A regional outage doesn’t take both copies.
04 / Drills
Tested restore drills
Quarterly restore exercise with documented results. The runbook is real because we run it.
05 / Integrity
Immutable retention
Off-site copies in object-lock retention — ransomware credentials can’t delete history they don’t have permission to touch.
06 / Evidence
Documentation for the audit
Backup configs, retention policy, drill results, recovery time / point objectives — the package your insurer asks for at renewal.
Why this matters
The recovery scenarios this stack handles.
Production fully encrypted
Attacker encrypts the live database and the hot snapshots they could reach. The off-site cold tier they couldn’t.
Recovered from: immutable off-site retention
Accidental deletion
A staff member drops a table or wipes a directory. You need yesterday’s state of one specific table, not a full restore.
Recovered from: point-in-time snapshot
Primary site offline
Power, network, or upstream provider goes down for the production region. You need to fail over before residents notice.
Recovered from: geographically separate copy
Carrier asks for proof
Underwriter requests last quarter’s restore-drill report and the RPO/RTO commitments. You either have the binder or you don’t.
Recovered from: documented drill results
Next step
Get backups that actually restore — and the documentation to prove it.
Included in every YesGov plan, no separate DR SKU. Migrate this quarter and your next insurance renewal will go smoother.