From the machine room to a bound page

The restore is the only proof the copy was ever real.

In last night’s job list, a green mark is only a claim. We sit with the operator in Georgia, open the cabinet, and draw what actually landed on tape, disk, and the courier’s book.

Backupvectorgrid Analytics works from Kutaisi. We do not sell software. We produce visual ledgers of backup coverage and recovery time for people who have to answer, on a bad morning, whether the copy will stand up.

Stacked bound volumes on a wooden shelf, the sort of object a finished recovery ledger resembles
A finished review leaves the office as paper you can annotate in the machine room, not as a login.

What a visit actually looks like

Two chairs, a job report, and a nominated restore

A typical morning starts with the night’s exception list, not a slide deck. We walk the room with the person who actually presses the restore, sample three to five jobs from the last ninety days, and ask for one supervised recovery of a system you choose. The pictures come later, at Level 10 on Tamar Mepe Street, once the notes are dry.

Quiet office interior where notes from a site visit are turned into a ledger
After the floor work, the charts are drawn in Kutaisi and walked through with the same operators who ran the jobs.

Recovery Readiness Review

The consultation we are asked for most

Recovery Readiness Review

For operations managers and records officers who must know, in writing, which systems would actually return and how long the last honest restore took.

Two to four working days on the floor, then a written ledger within ten days · Client premises in Georgia, or records reviewed at Level 10, 42 Tamar Mepe Street, Kutaisi 4600

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Restore drill observation

You already have a drill on the calendar. We watch, time the waits, and draw the story so the next drill is not the same conversation in a different room.

Monthly backup job ledger

A standing arrangement for sites that want last month’s exceptions drawn on one page, in the same hand, before the operations meeting.

Archive and off-site mapping

A survey of off-site crates, shelves, and signed books, drawn as a map the courier and the operator can both annotate.


After the restore, in their words

A note from a records office in Imereti

They made us restore a payroll file we had not touched in eleven months. The copy existed. The application owner who knew the password did not. That gap is now the first page of our own runbook, in their hand, with the time it actually took.

Irakli Gelashvili, records officer, a municipal office in Imereti

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From the journal

Field notes we keep for operators

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