BDR
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Automated backups, immutable storage, and disaster recovery planning that ensures your business survives any data loss event - ransomware, hardware failure, or natural disaster.
Backups are not a recovery plan. An untested backup is a hypothesis, and ransomware operators specifically target the ones you can reach.
Every company we onboard tells us they have backups. A meaningful share of them cannot actually restore. The backup job has been failing silently for months, the retention window is shorter than anyone assumed, or the backup target is a network share the same ransomware payload will encrypt on its way through.
That last one deserves emphasis. Modern ransomware crews hunt for backups before they encrypt anything. They delete snapshots, wipe the backup server, and destroy shadow copies, because a company that can restore does not pay. Immutability is what breaks that plan: storage that cannot be altered or deleted within the retention window, even by an administrator with valid credentials.
We design around two numbers. Recovery time objective is how long you can be down. Recovery point objective is how much data you can afford to lose. Those numbers drive the architecture, not the other way around, and they belong in a conversation with your leadership rather than in an IT assumption.
Then we test. Quarterly restore drills against real systems, documented, timed, and reported. If a restore takes eleven hours and your plan assumed four, that is far better learned during a drill than during an incident.
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Server RTO
Immutable
Off-site storage
Quarterly
Tested restores
Daily
Automated backups
Signs your backup strategy will fail you
If two or more of these are true, this is worth a conversation.
- Nobody has performed a full restore test in the last twelve months
- Backups write to a network share or drive that domain accounts can reach
- You have no documented recovery time or recovery point objectives
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace data is not backed up separately
- Backup job failures are emailed to an inbox nobody reads
- Your disaster recovery plan is knowledge in one person's head
What is included in backup and disaster recovery
Protection, isolation, and proven recovery for everything that matters.
Automated daily backups
Scheduled protection of servers, workstations, virtual machines, databases, and cloud workloads with verification on every job rather than an assumption of success.
Immutable off-site storage
Write-once copies in geographically separate storage that cannot be deleted within the retention window, even with stolen administrator credentials.
Ransomware-proof snapshots
Air-gapped or logically isolated recovery points with separate authentication, so the credentials used to encrypt your network cannot reach your recovery data.
Microsoft 365 and SaaS backup
Independent protection for Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. Microsoft replicates your data but does not protect you from deletion, corruption, or a malicious insider.
Disaster recovery planning
Documented runbooks with recovery order, dependencies, named responsibilities, and communication procedures, written so a competent engineer can execute them under pressure.
Tested recovery SLAs
Contractual recovery time commitments backed by quarterly drills that prove the numbers instead of estimating them.
How we deliver it
A repeatable process, not a custom experiment on your business.
1. Business impact analysis
We identify critical systems and data and establish real recovery objectives with your leadership, because the right architecture depends entirely on those numbers.
2. Architecture design
Backup topology built to the 3-2-1-1-0 principle: three copies, two media types, one off-site, one immutable, and zero errors on verification.
3. Deployment
Automated backup of servers, workstations, cloud workloads, and SaaS data including Microsoft 365, with encryption in transit and at rest.
4. Immutability and isolation
Off-site copies written to storage that cannot be modified or deleted during retention, with credentials fully separated from your production domain.
5. Recovery testing
Quarterly restore drills with documented timings against your stated objectives, plus annual full disaster recovery exercises for critical systems.
6. Monitoring and reporting
Daily job verification, alerting on any failure, and monthly reporting so a silent failure never runs for months undetected.
Backup mistakes that end in permanent data loss
Each of these has caused a real recovery failure we were called in to handle.
Backups reachable from the production domain
If a domain administrator account can delete your backups, so can the attacker who stole one. Credential separation is non-negotiable.
Assuming Microsoft 365 is backed up
Microsoft guarantees service availability, not recovery of data you or an attacker deleted. Retention periods are shorter than most people expect.
Never testing a restore
Backup success messages mean the job ran, not that the data is usable. Only a restore test proves recoverability.
No documented recovery order
Restoring applications before domain controllers and databases wastes hours during the exact window when hours are most expensive.
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