Desk openLose it. Get it back. Here is how long it takes.
Press what has gone. The right-hand side shows the restore time we work to, how often it is backed up, where it lives and when we last proved it.
Backed up every 4 hours in the working day and kept 90 days in two UK data centres. This restore was last tested on a client last Friday.
What is backed up, how, and how fast it comes back
The whole ledger, nothing hidden in a schedule.
Restore times are the targets in the contract; the time each weekly test actually took is on your monthly report.
Run, prove, report
The three habits that make a backup real.
Every job reports in; one that does not raises a ticket before 08:00.
A file, a mailbox or a whole machine, chosen at random, restored to a new place and checked.
How long each test took, next to what it would have cost not to have it.
Why we test every week
Because an untested backup is a hope.
The recycle bin is not a backup
Microsoft keeps deleted mail for 30 days and then it is gone. A ransomware attack encrypts the backup drive plugged into the server. Backup is only a backup when it is somewhere else, versioned, and proven to come back.
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The pages most people read next.
We will restore one of your files in front of you, free, this week.
Helpdesk 0113 216 6777, Monday to Friday 08:00 to 18:00. Bring a file name; we bring it back.
