Disaster recovery & business continuity Melbourne
Disaster recovery and business continuity for Melbourne SMBs. Microsoft 365 backup, immutable storage, quarterly restore testing, ransomware recovery.
Disaster recovery and business continuity in Melbourne
When a server fails, ransomware encrypts your files, or a mailbox is wiped by a departing staff member, the question is not whether you recover — it is how long it takes and how much data you lose. Key IT plans, builds and tests disaster recovery and business continuity for Melbourne business, so the answer is known, fast and rehearsed rather than discovered in a crisis.
It starts with two numbers
Every disaster recovery plan begins with your Recovery Time Objective (how long you can be down) and Recovery Point Objective (how much data you can afford to lose). Everything else flows from these. A system with a four-hour RTO and fifteen-minute RPO needs a very different design from a file server that can tolerate a day — and matching the design to the need is how you avoid both unnecessary cost and nasty surprises.
What we protect
Microsoft 365 backup
independent backup of Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams, because Microsoft does not protect you from deletion, ransomware or compromised accounts.
Server and workload backup
image-level backup with local recovery for speed and offsite replication for resilience, plus instant virtualisation for critical servers.
Endpoint and file recovery
protection for data held on laptops and workstations.
Immutable, ransomware-resilient backups
designed to survive an attacker who tries to delete them.
Business continuity planning
Backup is not a continuity plan. Continuity is what your business does in the first hour, day and week of an outage. We document it with you — a business impact analysis, recovery runbooks stored where you can reach them during an incident, communication plans, and manual workarounds — and we review and rehearse it, because untested plans fail.
Tested recovery, not hope
Every contracted disaster recovery client gets regular restore testing: we recover a workload to an isolated environment, verify it, and document the result. If a restore takes longer than your RTO, we redesign. Untested backups are stories, not insurance — and an untested backup is the single most common gap we find when taking over from another provider.
Frequently asked questions
Does Microsoft back up my 365 data?
Not in the way you need. Microsoft protects its own infrastructure, not against accidental deletion past their retention window, malicious deletion, ransomware on synced files, or compromised admin accounts. Independent backup is essential.
What is the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
Backup is a copy of your data. Disaster recovery is the tested ability to restore systems and data within defined time and data-loss objectives. Business continuity is keeping the business operating while you recover.
What are RTO and RPO?
Recovery Time Objective is how long you can be down; Recovery Point Objective is how much data you can afford to lose. They drive the design of your recovery solution.
How do you protect backups from ransomware?
With immutable storage, separate authentication and isolated retention, so an attacker who reaches your network cannot delete or encrypt your backups.
How often do you test recovery?
Regularly for contracted clients — we recover workloads to an isolated environment, verify them, and document the result, redesigning if recovery is too slow.
Can you help us recover from a ransomware attack now?
Yes. See our incident response service — recovery from clean, immutable backups is how we get you running without paying a ransom.
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