Data Protection & Continuity

Immutable backup, disaster recovery, email archiving and long-term retention that let you restore any workload to any point in time, on a schedule you can defend to an auditor. Every organisation believes it has backups. Far fewer can state, without checking, how long a full restore of their most critical system would take, when that restore was last actually performed, or whether the backup copy could be encrypted by the same attacker who reached production.

It depends on data volume and whether recovery is local or from cloud storage. Local recovery of a typical file server is usually measured in hours; a full cloud restore of a large dataset can take longer, which is exactly why we agree and document the target up front rather than discovering it during an incident.

Backup preserves your data. Disaster recovery preserves your ability to operate. Backup is the insurance policy; disaster recovery is the spare vehicle already fuelled and ready. Most organisations need both, and they are designed differently.

Microsoft offers in-place archiving and retention labels, which are genuinely useful, but they live inside the same tenant they are protecting and are administered by the same accounts. An independent archive removes that single point of control and typically offers substantially faster search across large volumes.

The first full backup is the heaviest and can be scheduled or seeded. After that, only changed blocks transfer, which is typically a small daily volume. Bandwidth caps and schedules are configurable per device group.

It depends on the tier. Warm archive tiers return data in minutes; the deepest and cheapest tiers can take several hours. We map record classes to tiers based on how quickly you would realistically need each type back.