Database state
CMS records and site data are protected as part of a recovery point.
Backups and recovery
Included at launch · Currently being completed and tested
Recovery for your whole EmDash website.
A website is more than one database. DashHarbor recovery is designed to protect the pieces needed to return a managed EmDash site to a known working state.
Uploaded media
Images and other customer media are protected separately rather than assuming database recovery is enough.
Configuration
The information needed to reconstruct the managed site belongs to the recovery state too.
Deployment identity
Recovery knows which deployed site state belongs with the protected content.
EmDash version
The software version forms part of the site state rather than being treated as unrelated to recovery.
Design version
The supported design version is recorded so content is restored against the expected website release.
Verified recovery points
A recovery point has to be usable.
DashHarbor does not treat a database row saying “backup complete” as sufficient protection. Recovery points move through a real lifecycle and only become ready when their required components have been protected and verified.
Before a restore
Protect the current site first.
Before an older recovery point is restored, DashHarbor creates a protection point for the current state. That gives the website another route back if the earlier restore is not the result you expected.
Independent of the editor
Recovery does not rely on EmDash being healthy.
The recovery engine sits outside the EmDash administration interface. If the editor itself is unavailable, DashHarbor can still work with the protected site state underneath it.
Read the EmDash backups and recovery guidePlanned scheduled protection
Protection should not depend on remembering to click a button.
After the core recovery system is proven, DashHarbor plans scheduled protection so recent recovery points are created automatically as part of the managed service.
Managed EmDash
Part of the platform around your website.
You manage your website in EmDash. DashHarbor manages the hosting, deployment and operational layer underneath it.