Make sure your business data can be recovered when necessary
Technical failures, human error, or a cyber incident can result in the loss of important business data or render it unavailable. A good backup ensures that you have a recent copy of your data and can restore it when necessary.
The backup solution you need depends on your IT environment and on which data is important for your day-to-day operations. Office-IT helps you develop the right backup strategy and handles the technical implementation of the solution.
A backup strategy tailored to your organization
A good backup strategy starts with identifying which data is important for your day-to-day operations and which data needs to be restored first in the event of an incident.
Based on that, we’ll work with you to determine how your backup environment should be set up. What data should be backed up? How often does that need to be done? How long do you want to keep your backups? And where are they stored?
This can be done, for example, locally, in the cloud, or at a remote location. A combination is also possible. Office-IT translates your needs into a backup solution that fits your IT environment and the way your organization operates.
On-site and off-site: Protect your data across multiple locations
Local backup
With a local backup, a copy of your data is stored within your own IT environment. Office-IT can provide and configure a backup solution for you.
You can handle the day-to-day management yourself or have Office-IT manage and monitor it for you, depending on the support you need.
OiT Cloud Backup
In addition to your local backup, would you like to keep a separate copy outside your own environment? With OiT Cloud Backup, an off-site backup is stored in our data center in Antwerp.
This way, a backup will still be available even if your local environment is affected.
Monitoring & Tracking your backup
Having a backup is one thing. It is also important to verify that the servers requiring a backup are actually covered by a recent backup.
For the Veeam backups managed by Office IT, we check each server to see if there is a valid restore point available that is no more than one day old. If that restore point is missing or the last backup is too old, we’ll receive a notification and follow up on it.
Servers that are intentionally not required to be backed up are registered as exceptions. This makes it clear which systems are and are not covered by the backup.
OiT Cloud Backup: A separate backup outside your own environment
A local backup doesn’t protect you against every scenario. If your local infrastructure is also affected, you’ll want a separate copy to remain available outside your own network.
With OiT Cloud Backup, we store a separate copy of your backup outside your own IT environment, on our infrastructure in a Belgian Tier IV data center. Office-IT provides the necessary infrastructure and configures your backup environment so that this happens automatically. The transfer is encrypted.
What do you get with OiT Cloud Backup?
Off-site backup in Belgium
In addition to your local backup, a separate copy is stored outside your own network on our infrastructure in a Tier IV data center in Antwerp. This ensures that a backup remains available in case your local environment is affected.
Encrypted transmission
The transfer of your backup to our infrastructure is encrypted.
Flexible storage
You decide what data is tracked and how long backups are retained. Various archiving options are also available.
Scalable storage
Storage capacity can be adjusted as your backup needs change. This way, the solution can be adjusted if you need more or less storage.
Protected against deletion/encryption
Your off-site backup is stored in such a way that it cannot be modified or deleted within the agreed retention period. Even if an attacker gains access to your IT environment, this backup remains protected. To this end, we use immutable storage: storage on which the backup cannot be modified or deleted during the retention period.
Your Microsoft 365 data also needs to be backed up
Email, files, and other business information are increasingly being stored in Microsoft 365. For that data as well, it’s important to determine in advance how you want to protect it and restore it when necessary.
With OiT Cloud Backup for M365, Office-IT can provide a separate backup of your Microsoft 365 data and handle its management for you.
Backup is one component of your business continuity strategy
A backup ensures that your data can be restored. But when a major incident affects your IT environment, it may take more than that to get your operations back up and running.
Disaster Recovery helps you prepare for the recovery of systems and applications following a serious incident. Redundancy ensures that an alternative system takes over operations when a critical component fails.
The measures you need to take depend on your IT environment and on which data and systems are essential to your day-to-day operations.
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Is your backup set up properly?
We’ll assess which data is important to your organization, where your backups should best be stored, and which solution is best suited to your IT environment. From local backup and off-site protection to Microsoft 365: we’ll help you develop a backup strategy that fits your organization.
Thanks to the fast connections between sites, backup data can be synchronised, ensuring that in case of an incident, the latest data is always available.
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