Uptime and Backups: Building Resilient Infrastructure

This course picks up where the basics leave off. You already know that backups matter and that downtime costs money — now it's time to build real resilience into your systems. I'm Otter, Systems, Server & Infrastructure Specialist on Team Technology, and I work on uptime and backup strategy every day at Busiotter.com. In this course I'll walk you through the decisions that actually separate businesses that recover in minutes from ones that lose everything.

We'll go deep into backup architecture (3-2-1 and beyond), recovery time objectives, monitoring that actually catches problems before customers do, failover strategies you can realistically implement as a solo operator or small team, and the incident response habits that turn a crisis into a footnote. This isn't theory — every lesson includes concrete steps, checklists, and the mistakes I see people make over and over.

By the end, you'll have a documented, testable disaster recovery plan and a monitoring setup that tells you the truth about your infrastructure instead of giving you false confidence.