Continuity
Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity
Every organization has backups. Far fewer have restored from one recently. The difference only becomes visible on the worst day of your year.
What Is the Difference Between Backup and Disaster Recovery?
Backup is a copy of your data. Disaster recovery is a tested plan for getting the organization operating again. A backup answers whether the data still exists; disaster recovery answers how long you will be down, in what order systems come back, and who does what while they are offline.
Business continuity is broader still: how the organization keeps functioning during the outage. Netlogic covers all three, with recovery time, and recovery point targets agreed in writing.
What’s included
What This Service Covers
- Business continuity strategyWhat the organization does while systems are down, written before it is needed.
- Disaster recovery planningRecovery time and recovery point objectives agreed, documented, and tested.
- Microsoft 365 backupIndependent backup of Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. Microsoft’s retention is not a backup.
- Server and infrastructure backupOn-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems covered under one plan.
- Risk assessmentReviewing where a single failure would take out more than you expect.
- Ransomware recovery supportContainment, clean restoration, and evidence preservation when the worst happens.
- Rapid data restorationIndividual file recovery through to full environment rebuild.
- Restore testingScheduled test restores, because an untested backup is a hypothesis.
The Failures We Plan For
Ransomware
Backups that are isolated and immutable, so encrypted production data is an inconvenience rather than an extinction event.
Hardware Failure
A dead server or storage array with a defined path back to service rather than an emergency procurement.
Human Error
Deleted mailboxes, overwritten files, and departed staff accounts, recoverable past Microsoft’s default retention window.
Outcomes
What You Get Out of It
Sectors where we do this work most often:
- A recovery time you have agreed to, rather than discovered
- Microsoft 365 data recoverable beyond Microsoft’s retention defaults
- Backups tested on a schedule, with results you can see
- A written plan your team can follow under pressure
- Evidence of continuity planning for auditors and insurers
Common questions
Backup & Recovery Questions
Does Microsoft 365 back up our data already?
Not in the way most organizations assume. Microsoft protects its own infrastructure and offers limited retention for deleted items, but that is not a backup. If a file is deleted, corrupted or encrypted and passes the retention window, it is gone. Independent Microsoft 365 backup closes that gap.
How often should backups be tested?
At minimum quarterly, and after any significant infrastructure change. A backup that has never been restored is an assumption. We run scheduled test restores and report the results, so the first real restore is not the first attempt.
Can you help after a ransomware attack?
Yes. We support containment, clean restoration from isolated backups, and preservation of evidence for insurers and regulators. Recovery is materially faster where continuity planning was done in advance, which is the argument for doing it now.
Related
Often Needed Alongside This
Where we deliver this
Backup and Recovery Across New Hampshire and Massachusetts
On-site from our Nashua office, with day-to-day support delivered remotely because it resolves most issues faster than a visit would.
Talk to Someone Who Has Done This Before
Start with a free IT assessment. We review where you stand, explain the risks in plain English, and give you a written roadmap to keep, whether or not you engage us.