Managed backups in Switzerland, VMware DR.

You, with scheduled tests. Hikube provides the service and can assist. FINMA/DORA files expect evidence, not a green job screenshot. We do not publish an RPO or an SLA credit. Geo-redundant block (sync in real time, or async, improved performance) is another product: block storage.

A backup never restored is not a backup, it is an intention. The discipline below holds whatever the tool, and it is what an auditor looks at, not a screenshot of a green job.

• Restore into a separate target, never over the source: a failed restore must not destroy what is left
• Time it: the real restore duration is the only figure that tells you whether your recovery objective holds
• Check the content, not the status: count rows, open a file, start the service, a green job is not evidence
• Date and file the result: that record is what a FINMA or nFADP file asks for, not the backup policy
• Repeat it after every architecture change, not once at go-live

The model fits in one sentence: you choose the frequency, the retention period and the destination S3 bucket, Hikube’s or your own, and you pay for the storage, nothing else. There is no backup licence and no per-machine fee: at CHF 0.02 per GB per month on Hikube S3, the bill is the volume you decide to keep, which makes a retention period directly readable in francs. Two things are not published and are framed with an engineer: the exact list of objects covered and excluded for your estate, and any recovery objective : we publish neither RPO nor RTO, and an objective read here would be wrong for half the readers. What the page can state: if the destination is a Hikube bucket, copies stay in the Swiss tenant; testing the restore stays your responsibility; and Backup as a Service is neither block replication nor a bucket left on its own, see the next section.

Hidora SA operates the platform copy, the three DCs and FR/EN support. You keep the application runbook, frequency, written retention, tests and the pilot RPO/RTO alignment. Kubernetes: Velero (optional addon) is another lever, for the cluster. Terraform integration in preparation.

VMware exit: AD, files, IIS, line-of-business Linux after import. Finance: restore evidence in the Swiss tenant. Healthcare nFADP: copies in-country, not HDS. A US bucket for copies breaks the file. Vault page: the secrets vault.

Backup as a Service is the managed copy for DR and audits. Block storage is always geo-redundant, sync (real time) or async (improved performance): not the same RPO, not this product. S3 object storage (optional WORM) is a bucket, not a VM restore runbook. Guide: backup, vault and compliance.

No. nFADP / nLPD frame. Hikube is not an HDS host and is not HDS-certified. Healthcare copies stay in Geneva, Gland and Lucerne if you stay on this product. A US KMS or bucket breaks the file. Healthcare page: healthcare.