Azure Disaster Recovery in the UK for Opticians & Eyecare

Backup protects individual patient records, prescription data, and clinical imagery against loss or corruption. Disaster recovery replicates your entire Optix, practice management, and clinical record systems environment to a secondary location, enabling rapid failover of all opticians practice operations if the primary site becomes unavailable.

For most opticians & eyecare, we achieve RTOs of one to four hours and RPOs of minutes using Azure Site Recovery. Exact targets depend on your opticians practice's specific requirements and are agreed during the DR planning phase.

We recommend quarterly DR tests for opticians & eyecare and conduct them without disrupting production. Each test produces a documented report confirming recovery success, which supports GOC standards, CQC, and GDPR audit requirements.

Yes. We replicate Optix, practice management, and clinical record systems environments along with underlying databases, file shares, and network configurations. DR testing validates that Optix, practice management, and clinical record systems function correctly after failover, ensuring your opticians practice can continue operating from the secondary site.

Costs depend on the number of protected VMs and data volume replicated. Azure Site Recovery pricing is straightforward at a per-instance monthly fee plus storage. We optimise by prioritising critical opticians practice systems and using tiered protection levels.