Disaster Recovery

Be ready for the unexpected. Optiri’s disaster recovery solutions help your credit union recover quickly, minimize downtime, and protect member trust during any disruption.
 
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Testimonials

What Our Customers
Say About Optiri

 
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"There’s scores of vendors that we work with, and there’s not many I can think of that I truly trust the way I do Trellance [now Optiri]."

 

Christopher Newell
Vice President of Information Technology
NIH Federal Credit Union

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"We are happy with what we are getting from Trellance [now Optiri]- a trustworthy partner who’s providing us with tools and who we truly believe wants to do the right thing by our credit union."

 

Greg Bowman
Chief Technology Officer
Nymeo Federal Credit Union

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Recover Quickly and Minimize Downtime with Optiri’s Disaster Recovery Solutions

Ensure your credit union is prepared for any disaster with fast data restoration, minimal downtime and seamless recovery strategies to keep serving your members.

  • Rapid data restoration and minimal downtime in the event of a disaster.
  • Seamless failover strategies to maintain operations during disruptions.
  • Tailored for credit unions to ensure quick recovery and continuous service.
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Back Up as a Service

Operate With Confidence

Operate with confidence, knowing all of your credit union’s vital systems and data are continually and automatically backed up and saved on a remote server, allowing you to quickly recover in case of a continuity event.

  • Continuous, automatic backups.
  • Data saved offsite, so it will be unaffected by any continuity event.
  • Recover with ease.
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Questions On Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery is the process of restoring critical technology systems, applications and data after a cyberattack, system failure, natural disaster or other disruption. An effective credit union disaster recovery plan minimizes downtime, supports continuous member service and protects data, operations and member trust.
Disaster recovery failover moves affected systems to a recovery environment so staff can resume work when the primary location is unavailable. For a credit union, that can mean restoring access to the systems behind essential member services while the original environment is repaired. Failover still depends on working applications, network access, staff and service providers, so the entire recovery path should be tested. Optiri supports recovery strategies that include failover and rapid restoration, with the scope tailored to the systems your credit union needs to recover.
Backups protect copies of data, but disaster recovery addresses how the entire technology environment will be restored. A complete disaster recovery strategy includes system dependencies, recovery priorities, failover procedures, employee responsibilities, alternate infrastructure, vendor coordination and regular testing.
An acceptable recovery time objective is the maximum amount of time a system or business process can remain unavailable before causing unacceptable operational, financial or member impact. Each credit union should establish RTOs through a business impact analysis based on the criticality of each system and service.
Restore systems in the order their loss affects members and critical operations, rather than assuming every application has the same urgency. A business impact analysis can identify dependencies for services such as online banking, call centers, core processing and member communications; recovery time and recovery point objectives then turn those findings into priorities. Optiri’s continuity specialists can help assess essential functions, while its disaster recovery services support restoration of the systems selected for protection.
Backup as a Service (BaaS) creates and manages recurring copies of critical data stored separately from the primary environment so it can be restored after loss or disruption. For credit unions, a backup approach should protect member information and financial records, set a schedule based on how much data loss is acceptable, and include restore tests. Optiri describes continuous, automatic backups stored offsite as part of its disaster recovery offering. Confirm the systems covered, backup frequency and restoration process for the service your credit union chooses.
The right backup frequency depends on the consequences of losing recent transactions or member records. A recovery point objective (RPO) defines how much data loss your credit union can tolerate, measured in time; that determines whether a system needs frequent backups or a less intensive schedule. The right interval varies by function: core processing and a lower-priority internal system may have different needs. Optiri’s disaster recovery guidance and continuity planning can help connect backup decisions to business impact and recovery priorities rather than relying on a single schedule for every system.
A reliable restoration process starts with an available, usable backup and a clear decision about which data and systems to recover first. Teams then need to restore the information, check its integrity and confirm the applications that use it are functioning before returning services to normal. Testing those steps in advance helps expose gaps that a successful backup alone would not reveal. Optiri offers offsite backups and recovery support aimed at restoring critical credit union data after a disruption.
A successful backup notification does not prove the data can be restored. Test a restoration, verify the recovered data is intact and usable and confirm that dependent systems work and recovery times align with your credit union’s goals. Document the findings and fix any gaps before an actual outage. Optiri’s recovery guidance emphasizes backup restoration validation and post-recovery data checks; its disaster recovery offering provides offsite backup and restoration capabilities to support that process.