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Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery, included with every seat.

When the imaging workstation dies or ransomware hits the front desk, your practice comes back — machines, databases, and studies. Part of every Medical seat, on both plans; no add-ons, no appliance.

  • Block-level imaging with app-consistent (VSS) backups
  • Five recovery paths — from one file to a whole machine
  • Cross-hardware restore — boot on different hardware
  • Ransomware Canary — deterministic, works from day one
  • Boot verification — proof your backup actually boots
BigMind Medical Disaster Recovery overview — five recovery paths, canary, cross-hardware restoreClick to enlarge
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Recovery paths
all included
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Whole machine
with Always-Ready
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DR add-on cost
included in the seat
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Appliances required
no hardware to buy

Recovery Methods

When disaster strikes, pick the fastest path.

Most products give one way to restore. We give five — a file instantly, a whole machine in ~5 min with Always-Ready or ~30–60 min cold, bare-metal in ~2–3 hours.

~5 min · warm standby

Always-Ready VM

A pre-launched, RDP-ready AWS VM that mirrors your last backup. The fast full-machine path.

~30–60 min cold (→ ~5 min with Always-Ready)

Instant Recovery

Cold-boot any image as a raw EBS volume. Add Always-Ready to turn the cold rebuild into ~5 minutes.

~30–60 min cold · $0.20–$0.40/hr

Cloud Desktop

Boot any backup as a metered Windows VM — pay only while it runs. (→ ~5 min with Always-Ready.)

~2–3 hours · bare-metal

USB / Full System Restore

Cross-hardware bare-metal restore from a USB. No cloud required, air-gap-compatible.

instant · file-level

Browse Files

Drill into any image and pull a single file in seconds. No full restore needed.

Backup Engine

Block-level. App-consistent. Deduped.

Block-Level Imaging

VSS snapshot + NTFS bitmap + dedup. Capture only what changed — even on imaging archives.

App-Consistent VSS

Coordinated VSS Writers for SQL-backed practice management and EHR databases.

Multi-Volume

Back up C: + D: + system reserved in one bootable image.

Encryption AES-256

Per-tenant keys. Zero-knowledge mode available.

Cross-Hardware

Boots on the hardware you have today.

Your replacement machine isn't identical. Different chipset. Different storage controller. Different network card. Most backup products give you a recovery image that won't boot. We ship three tiers: same-hardware (instant), different-hardware with offline DISM driver injection (USB Recovery), and Cloud Desktop driver injection from our bastion (universal). Driver harvest library included — so the clinic is back on whatever PC the shop had in stock.

  • Same-hardware (instant), USB cross-hardware (offline DISM), and Cloud Desktop (universal)
  • Driver harvest library included — no per-restore licensing
  • Works for the imaging workstation, the front-desk PC, and the practice server alike

Source

Imaging workstation

Intel Xeon · MegaRAID · Broadcom NIC

Target

Off-the-shelf PC

Different CPU · Different RAID · Different NIC → Boots.

Verification

We boot your backups. So recovery day isn't a surprise.

We don't trust “it backed up successfully.” We verify the image actually boots — capture a screenshot, log the result, surface it in your dashboard.

Frequency

Your images are boot-tested on a recurring schedule — not just checksummed.

Proof

Actual boot screenshot stored as evidence — not just a "success" flag.

On failure

Alert surfaces, image flagged, prevents silent recovery-day failure.

Ransomware Defense

We catch ransomware mid-attack. Before it reaches your imaging archive.

Ransomware encrypts over 30–120 minutes. Hourly backups can capture encrypted data and overwrite the clean version. Our canary detects tamper events before that happens, freezes the backup chain, and protects the last clean image — so your patient studies can't be silently encrypted.

Learn about Ransomware Canary

Storage & Retention

Local. Cloud. Both.

Local-Only Mode

Chunks stay on the clinic's disk or NAS. Cloud holds metadata only. Privacy-first; air-gap-compatible.

Hybrid (Local + Cloud)

Local for fast recovery, cloud for the offsite copy. The default for Medical seats.

4-Track Retention

Daily / weekly / monthly / yearly slot-based GFS pipeline. Pinned images never expire.

Reliability

Backups that survive bad networks.

Captive portal detection. Bandwidth limiter. Retry classification. Exponential backoff. We don't fail a backup because the clinic Wi-Fi flapped or someone walked behind a microwave.

Stall watchdog detects silently-hung backups and recovers them automatically. No 24-hour “in progress” jobs that turn out to be dead.

At a Glance

Everything DR, in every Medical seat.

Recovery paths

Always-Ready VM

Warm AWS VM, RDP-ready in ~5 min

Instant Recovery

Cold-boot any image as EBS in ~30–60 min (→ ~5 min with Always-Ready)

Cloud Desktop

Boot any backup as a Windows VM in ~30–60 min (→ ~5 min with Always-Ready)

USB Recovery

Cross-hardware bare-metal restore in ~2–3 hours

Browse Files

Drill into any image, grab one file. Instant.

Engine & verification

Block-Level Imaging

VSS snapshot + NTFS bitmap + dedup

App-Consistent VSS

Coordinated writers for SQL-backed practice systems

Encryption (AES-256)

Per-tenant keys, zero-knowledge mode available

Boot Verification

We boot your backups and prove they restore

Resilience & UI

Recovery Shield UI

Fortress + Escape views. Posture and recovery paired.

Network Resilience

Captive portal, retry, stall watchdog

Storage & retention

Local-Only Mode

Chunks on your disk or NAS. Air-gap-compatible.

4-Track Retention

Daily / weekly / monthly / yearly GFS pipeline

WORM Immutability

Write-once storage for audit-ready retention

One seat. Imaging, viewer, and disaster recovery.

From $25/user/month — DICOM support and full disaster recovery on every plan (Pro adds 1 TB + deeper DR retention). Start in 5 minutes. 15-day free trial.