Backup & Disaster Recovery
Backup & Disaster Recovery Solutions
Protect your business from data loss with automated cloud backups, defined recovery objectives, and comprehensive disaster recovery planning. Because downtime is not an option.
Did you know? 60% of small businesses that lose their data shut down within 6 months. Regular, tested backups are your most important defence against data loss from ransomware, hardware failure, or human error.
What We Protect
Comprehensive backup coverage across your entire IT infrastructure, from endpoints to servers to cloud services.
Endpoint Backup
Protect laptops, desktops, and mobile devices with continuous backup. Employees' work is safeguarded regardless of where they are working.
Server & Infrastructure Backup
Full image-level and file-level backup for on-premises and cloud servers. Rapid restore with minimal downtime for your critical systems.
Microsoft 365 Backup
Many businesses assume Microsoft backs up their data. We provide dedicated M365 backup covering Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.
Instant Virtualisation
In a major disaster, we can spin up your backed-up servers as virtual machines in the cloud within minutes, keeping your business running while repairs are made.
The 3-2-1 Backup Rule
Our backup strategies follow the industry-standard 3-2-1 rule — the gold standard for data protection that ensures your data survives any disaster.
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3 Copies of Data
Keep at least three copies of your data — the original and two backups. If one fails, you always have another to fall back on.
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2 Different Media
Store backups on two different types of media — such as a local backup appliance and cloud storage — so a single hardware failure cannot wipe out everything.
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1 Offsite Copy
Keep at least one copy in a separate physical location — typically a UK cloud data centre — so fire, flood, or theft at your premises cannot destroy your backups.
Our Backup & DR Capabilities
Enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery features designed to keep your business resilient.
Cloud Backup
Automated, encrypted cloud backups for servers, workstations, Microsoft 365, and SaaS applications. Your data is stored securely in UK data centres.
Defined RPO & RTO
We work with you to define your Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective, ensuring your backup strategy meets your business continuity requirements.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Comprehensive DR plans documenting recovery procedures, responsibilities, and communication protocols so your team knows exactly what to do in a crisis.
Regular Testing
Scheduled backup verification and disaster recovery drills to ensure your backups are working and your team is prepared when it matters most.
Server & VM Backup
Image-based server backups with bare-metal restore capability. Protect physical servers, Hyper-V, and VMware virtual machines with incremental snapshots.
Ransomware Protection
Immutable backup copies that cannot be encrypted or deleted by ransomware. Air-gapped and versioned backups ensure you can always recover clean data.
Why Trust Britannia with Your Backups?
We do not just set up backups and forget about them. Our proactive approach includes daily monitoring, regular test restores, and documented disaster recovery procedures.
Is Your Data Protected?
Book a free backup health check and find out if your current backup strategy would survive a real disaster.
Frequently Asked Questions
Backup is the process of creating copies of your data so it can be restored if lost or corrupted. Disaster recovery (DR) is a broader strategy that encompasses backup but also includes the plans, procedures, and infrastructure needed to restore your entire IT environment after a major incident such as a fire, flood, or ransomware attack. Britannia IT provides both as part of a comprehensive business continuity solution.
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) defines the maximum amount of data you can afford to lose, measured in time. For example, an RPO of 1 hour means backups run at least hourly. RTO (Recovery Time Objective) defines how quickly you need to be back up and running after a disaster. These metrics determine your backup frequency and recovery strategy, and we work with you to define both based on your business requirements.
Yes. Many businesses assume Microsoft backs up their data, but Microsoft operates on a shared responsibility model. They protect the infrastructure, but you are responsible for your data. Accidental deletion, malicious insiders, and ransomware can all cause permanent data loss without a dedicated backup solution. We provide Microsoft 365 backup covering Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.
We perform regular test restores to verify that your backups are working correctly and your data can be recovered. The frequency depends on your requirements, but we recommend quarterly test restores at a minimum. We also monitor every backup job daily and alert on any failures, so issues are caught and resolved immediately rather than discovered during an emergency.
Yes. We use immutable backup copies that cannot be encrypted, modified, or deleted by ransomware. Our backup solutions include air-gapped storage and versioning, ensuring you always have clean data to recover from. This is critical because modern ransomware specifically targets backup files to prevent recovery. Call us on 01704 320640 to review your current backup resilience.
Your backup data is stored in secure, UK-based data centres, ensuring compliance with data sovereignty requirements and GDPR. All data is encrypted both in transit and at rest using AES-256 encryption. We can also provide local backup appliances for faster recovery times alongside cloud backup for off-site redundancy.