Disaster Recovery
Data backup, system backup, disaster recovery and business continuity
Data protection
Servers and PC protection
Recover a non-bootable system
Recover from a disaster
Business continuity
Your data is a valuable asset to your business, as is the integrity and availability of your servers, desktops and laptops used to store and access the data, so it is of vital importance that your data is protected from deletion or corruption, and that your systems are protected from hardware failure, physical theft, successful cyber attacks, or disasters such as fire or flood.
Disasters and hardware failures can happen at any time, often without warning, and unless the right protection and procedures are in place your business is vulnerable, so a tried and tested recovery plan is essential for business continuity.
Whilst backing up your data and systems is important, the backup is worthless if it can't be restored, so we always ensure your data can be restored, and that your servers, desktops, or laptops, can be fully recovered to either the same or to similar hardware in the event of hardware failure, operating system corruption or cyber attack.
An effective disaster recovery plan is also necessary to aid in GDPR compliance to ensure availability of any data you may process and hold.
If you have fileservers for network authentication, or simply being used as application or data storage servers, we would always recommend these are virtualised, as backing them up and restoring them is far quicker and easier than it is for a physical server, and if the server role is critical it can be part of a failover cluster, so if one server fails another one would seamlessly take over.
We also recommend that no important data is stored on end-user devices, and instead should be stored in a secure shared network location, so if the end-user device fails the data is still accesible from another device with the appropriate authorisation.
If you subscribe to cloud services, such as Microsoft 365 which is a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, or IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) for virtualised computing resources such as Amazon Web Services, you need to ensure that your data is also backed up. Whilst these services will always replicate your data to multiple geographically dispersed locations for resillience and service availability, the actual data may not be automatically backed up to a seperate and secure location for recovery in the event of accidental or deliberate deletion or corruption.
Whilst many services offer versioning and rollback, securing your data is your responsibility, providing access to the service and whatever data is being hosted is the service providers responsibility.
From commercial licenced software solutions, such as Veeam Backup & Recovery and MSP360 (formerly Cloudberry Labs), to free open source solutions such as UrBackup, and backup storage solutions ranging from local storage with removable media to take offsite, or replication to another location, to resilient and redundant cloud storage, we can advise and implement the most appropriate solution to meet your budget and needs.
If you want to learn more about how we can help protect your systems and data in the event of a disaster, please get in touch for an initial no obligation chat.