Business Backup Solutions
Business Backup Solutions
Automated, tested backups — because the time to plan disaster recovery is before the disaster.
Data loss happens — ransomware, hardware failure, accidental deletion, building fire. Backups prevent data loss from becoming a business-ending event. But backups only work if they're automated, stored offsite, regularly verified, and recoverable in a timeframe that keeps your business running.
The 3-2-1 Backup Rule
The industry standard backup strategy is 3-2-1: three copies of your data, on two different storage media types, with one copy offsite. For a typical small business: the original data on your server or cloud application, a local backup NAS or external drive for fast restoration, and an encrypted cloud backup at a geographically distant location.
This strategy protects against hardware failure (local backup covers it), ransomware that spreads to local systems (offsite cloud backup covers it), and local physical disasters like fire or flood (offsite covers it). No single event can eliminate all three copies.
What Needs to Be Backed Up
Most businesses think about their file server when they think about backups. But all of the following need backup strategies: databases (requires export or snapshot, not just file copy), Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace (Microsoft and Google are not your backup — they protect against their own failures, not user deletion or ransomware), email (especially important for compliance), business application data in SaaS tools, and website databases if you run your own hosting.
We audit what you have, identify everything that needs backup coverage, and implement a comprehensive strategy.
Testing Is the Backup
A backup that has never been tested is not a backup — it's a hope. Backup verification is as important as backup execution. We monitor backup job success or failure (automated alerts when a backup fails), and perform quarterly restoration tests: take a backup, restore it to a test environment, verify the data is complete and consistent.
Quarterly testing also verifies your recovery time objective (RTO) — how long does restoration actually take? For many businesses, discovering that a full restore takes 48 hours when you thought it would take 4 is an important wake-up call that drives better backup architecture.
Protect your data before you need to recover it.
We'll audit your current backup situation and implement a solution with guaranteed restoration.