Data Recovery & Backup
Backup That Has Never Been Tested
Is Not Backup — It Is False Confidence
Most businesses find out their backups are broken, incomplete, or simply unrestorable at the worst possible moment — after a hardware failure or ransomware event. CobhamTech builds and verifies multi-layer backup strategies with documented RPO and RTO targets, tested on a defined schedule, so recovery is a procedure rather than a gamble.
Assess Your Backup StrategyWhat's Included
Automated, Tested, and Ready Before You Need It
A proper backup strategy follows the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of your data, on two different types of media, with one copy offsite. We implement and verify all three layers — then test them on a defined schedule.
Automated Daily Encrypted Backups
Scheduled backups run automatically — no human required — with AES encryption in transit and at rest. Local and offsite copies captured every 24 hours at minimum.
Tested Recovery Procedures
Backups are tested on a defined schedule against documented RPO and RTO targets. We verify your data actually restores before you need it to.
Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace
Microsoft and Google do not guarantee retention of your data beyond their own platform policies. We maintain independent, restorable copies of your email, calendar, and file data.
On-Premise Server & Workstation Backup
Local server data, file shares, databases, and critical workstation profiles backed up on schedule — with image-based recovery options that restore entire systems, not just files.
Disaster Recovery Planning
A documented disaster recovery plan defines exactly what happens if a server fails, a site is inaccessible, or a ransomware attack encrypts your data. Written before the event, not during it.
Emergency Data Recovery
When a failure happens outside your backup window — hardware crash, accidental deletion, ransomware — we execute recovery from the fastest available source and minimize the window of data loss.
What Changes When Your Data Is Properly Protected
Recovery in Hours, Not Days
Tested procedures with defined RTO targets mean your business is back online in hours — not the days or weeks an untested recovery can take.
Ransomware Loses Its Leverage
When your data is backed up offsite and tested, ransomware operators have nothing to hold over you. Restore from backup and move on.
Compliance Requirements Addressed
Documented backup and recovery procedures address the data protection requirements most industries, insurers, and clients are now asking businesses to demonstrate.
How Backup Fails
A Backup You Have Never Restored Is a Backup You Cannot Trust
Most backup systems run silently in the background and report success. That success status confirms the job ran — not that the data is recoverable. Corrupt archives, missing permissions, and version incompatibilities are only discovered during the restore attempt. After the incident.
CobhamTech runs scheduled restore tests. Actual files, actual recovery procedures, documented results. If your backup fails a test, you find out during maintenance — not during an emergency.
Recovery Architecture
How Fast You Recover Depends on Decisions You Made Months Ago
Recovery time is determined by your RPO and RTO targets — how much data you can afford to lose and how long you can afford to be down. Those targets have to be set before the incident and backed by infrastructure that can actually meet them.
CobhamTech designs backup architectures with defined, tested recovery windows — not aspirational ones. On-site, off-site, and cloud copies with documented failover procedures.
Common Questions About Data Backup and Recovery
We have a cloud service — isn't our data already backed up?
Not necessarily. Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace store your data but do not guarantee long-term restoration. Deleted items beyond the retention window are gone, and neither platform protects against accidental deletion, ransomware encryption, or administrator errors. An independent backup is the only guarantee of recovery.
What is the difference between RPO and RTO?
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is how much data loss is acceptable — measured in time. If your RPO is 24 hours, you can lose up to a day of data. RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is how long recovery takes. We set both targets before a failure happens and build backup procedures that meet them.
How often do you test backups?
We run restoration tests on a defined schedule — typically monthly or quarterly depending on your environment. A backup that has never been tested is an assumption, not a protection. We verify that your data actually restores before you need it to.
Can you recover data after a ransomware attack?
If you have clean, tested offsite backups that predate the encryption event — yes. We restore from the most recent unaffected backup, verify integrity, and bring your systems back online. If no clean backup exists, options are limited and expensive. That is precisely why we build backup strategies before incidents, not after.
What does a backup assessment cost?
The initial backup assessment is free. We review what you currently have in place, identify gaps, and present a backup strategy with implementation costs. No commitment required to get a clear picture of where you stand.
Find Out If Your Backups Would Actually Restore
A free backup assessment reviews your current strategy, tests your recovery assumptions, and tells you exactly what is protected — and what is not.
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