Law Ruler Backup Process & Disaster Recovery Procedures

Law Ruler is designed and architected with multiple redundancies in mind to maximize uptime and prevent data loss. Law Ruler is hosted on Azure following their best practices utilizing regions to decentralize the location of stored data. Law Ruler utilizes daily backups which can be restored using standard Azure protocol. 

Client Documents

Azure Blob Storage redundancy copies the data to protect it from transient hardware failures, network or power outages, and natural disasters.

SQL Servers Backup frequency (.95 and .206)

• Daily at 7:30 AM UTC Instant restore
• Retain instant recovery snapshot(s) for 2 day(s) Retention of daily backup point
• Retain backup taken every day at 7:30 AM for 15 Day(s) Retention of monthly backup point
• Retain backup taken every month on First Sunday at 7:30 AM for 3 Month(s) Retention of yearly backup point
• Retain backup taken every year in January on First Sunday at 7:30 AM for 1 Year(s)

App Servers Backup frequency (.83 and .96)

• Daily at 7:30 AM UTC Instant restore
• Retain instant recovery snapshot(s) for 1 day(s) Retention of daily backup point
• Retain backup taken every day at 7:30 AM for 7 Day(s) Retention of monthly backup point
• Retain backup taken every month on 1 at 7:30 AM for 1 Month(s)

Azure SQL Canada DB Backups

• Weekly

Restoration Process

Law Ruler has a runbook in place which the team is trained on and is used in regularly scheduled tabletop exercises.

In the event of a catastrophic event to an application or database server, an agent of Law Ruler would execute the runbook to:

1. Locate the system backups which are stored in a geographically redundant manner on
2. Initiate the system restoration process for the specified server based on Azure
3. Make any final configuration required for the requisite