Backup & Business Continuity
Automated backups on-site and in the cloud, restore tests you can see, and a written continuity plan for power, hardware, internet, and staffing failures.
Reliable IT systems are important to any company, regardless of size or industry, and your network needs more than a surge protector. CaneData designs backup and continuity solutions to fit your firm, from simple automated nightly backups to high-availability clustering, so you always have a Plan B.
Backup done right
- The 3-2-1 rule: three copies of your data, on two kinds of media, with one off-site
- Image-based backups of servers so a whole server can be restored, not just its files
- Microsoft 365 backup for mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams, which Microsoft does not do for you the way most people assume
- Immutable or air-gapped copies that ransomware cannot encrypt or delete
- Automated verification plus periodic full test restores you can watch
- Retention that matches your legal and industry obligations
- Workstation backups for the laptops that hold more than anyone admits
Continuity planning
Backups answer "can we get the data back?" A continuity plan answers "how do we keep working while we do?" We write a short, practical plan that covers:
- Power: UPS sizing, generator options, and safe shutdown
- Internet: automatic failover to a second circuit or LTE/5G
- Hardware failure: spares, warranties, and how fast a replacement arrives
- Hurricane season: what gets shut down, moved, or replicated, and when
- Remote work: who can work from home, on what, and how securely
- People: what happens when the one person who knows the system is unavailable
- Targets: how much data you can afford to lose and how long you can afford to be down, with costs for each option
Hurricane season checklist. Verified off-site backups, laptops and chargers for key staff, a tested remote-access path, a call tree, a copy of the plan somewhere that is not the office, and the firmware on the UPS updated. We can walk through it with you each May.
Tools
Related: Disaster Recovery, Ransomware Recovery.
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