Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Disaster Recovery is a managed disaster-recovery and business- continuity service for healthcare workloads, designed to meet the HIPAA Security Rule's contingency-planning requirements (45 CFR § 164.308(a)(7)). It combines off-site backup, replication, monitored failover, and engineer-led recovery so ePHI remains protected and accessible during a disruption.

Backup is a copy of your data, stored separately from production, that you can restore from. Disaster recovery is the entire process of getting your application and infrastructure running again after an outage — which may include backups, replication to a secondary site, network reconfiguration, DNS updates, and engineer-led cutover. You need backup to do disaster recovery; you need disaster recovery to use that backup at production scale.

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum acceptable downtime between an outage and the application being available again. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss, measured in time — how far back from the disaster the recovered data is. Tighter RTO/RPO targets cost more (in storage, replication, and standby capacity); looser targets cost less. The DR architecture is sized to hit both. Full RTO vs. RPO guide.

Atlantic.Net supports daily, hourly, 15-minute, and 5-minute backup tiers, with block-level incrementals to keep the backup window short and the storage footprint manageable. The right tier depends on your RPO target (see the on-page Backup Frequency Tiers table) and the workload's transaction rate.

Off-site copies are stored in a different Atlantic.Net data center, geographically separated from your primary facility, inside the same audited HIPAA environment. Atlantic.Net operates eight data center locations worldwide (New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Ashburn, Singapore, and Orlando), so you can pick a secondary region that satisfies your distance and jurisdictional requirements.

Veeam Backup & Replication is one of the platforms Atlantic.Net uses to deliver always-on protection across virtual, physical, and cloud workloads. Atlantic.Net engineers handle Veeam licensing, agent installation, policy configuration, and recovery; customers keep visibility through the Managed Veeam Service.

Yes. The HIPAA Security Rule's contingency-plan standard (§ 164.308(a)(7)) calls for data backup, disaster recovery, and emergency-mode operation plans. Atlantic.Net's Managed Disaster Recovery is delivered from infrastructure independently audited under HIPAA AT-C 105 / 205, with a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) available to customers handling ePHI.

A bare-metal restore brings an entire server — operating system, applications, configuration, and data — back to a fresh physical or virtual server, without depending on the original hardware. It is the workhorse pattern for recovering a server that cannot be repaired in place after a hardware or facility loss.

It depends on the architecture you choose. A hot-failover site with replicated data can take over within minutes; a warm-standby site typically takes tens of minutes to a few hours; a cold-restore from backups can take longer depending on volume and bandwidth. The Atlantic.Net DR team will design the architecture to your RTO target and pre-agree it as part of the SLA.

Pricing depends on the protected workload size, the chosen RTO/RPO targets, the secondary-site architecture (hot, warm, cold), and the data volume backed up and retained. Contact our sales team for a quote tailored to your environment.