How to Build an IT Disaster Recovery Plan
No matter the size of your business, it is absolutely crucial to have an effective disaster recovery plan in order to get back up and running in as little time as possible.
Data Protection
Build Recovery Into Your Infrastructure
Protect data and workloads with backups designed around how your business needs to recover.
Custom Backup Solutions
A good backup strategy gives you options when data is deleted, corrupted or unavailable. Servers Australia can combine backup, storage and recovery capabilities around your workloads, helping you maintain suitable recovery points and restore what you need when you need it.
- Protect Your Data
- Create Recovery Points
- Recover What You Need
- Keep Backups Separate
- Plan for Recovery
Backup Solutions
Build the Right Backup Solution
From planning and infrastructure through to backup platforms and implementation, combine the services you need to build a backup strategy around your business.
Plan
Professional Services
Get technical expertise to assess your infrastructure, workloads and backup requirements.
Solution Design
Plan backup architecture around recovery requirements, retention, capacity and existing infrastructure.
Technical Support
Access Australian technical expertise when planning and managing your backup environment.
Recovery Planning
Consider how critical data and workloads need to be restored before recovery is required.
Infrastructure Assessment
Understand dependencies across cloud, dedicated, storage and existing environments.
Capacity Planning
Plan storage and infrastructure capacity around current data volumes and future growth.
Protect
Scalable Backup Storage
Add storage capacity as protected data, retention requirements and backup volumes increase.
Cloud Infrastructure
Use flexible Australian cloud infrastructure to support backup and recovery requirements.
Dedicated Infrastructure
Deploy dedicated resources where backup environments require predictable performance and capacity.
Data Centre Infrastructure
Keep backup infrastructure within secure Australian data centre facilities.
Connected Environments
Connect production, backup and recovery infrastructure across your wider environment.
Offsite Backup
Maintain backup copies separately from primary production infrastructure.
Succeed
Veeam Backup Instance
Deploy a dedicated Veeam environment for managing backup, retention and recovery across supported workloads.
Acronis Backup
Protect supported workloads using Acronis backup and recovery capabilities.
Data Centre to Data Centre
Replicate or maintain protected data across separate infrastructure locations as part of a resilient backup strategy.
Server & Workload Backup
Protect important physical and virtual workloads with recovery requirements built around the environment.
Backup Implementation
Put the planned backup architecture into operation across the appropriate infrastructure and platforms.
Disaster Recovery
Extend backup into a wider recovery strategy for critical systems and business operations.
Why Choose Servers Australia
Australian Infrastructure
Protect your data and workloads using backup infrastructure hosted within Australia.
Complete Backup Solutions
Bring backup platforms, storage, compute and recovery infrastructure together through one provider.
Scalable Resources
Expand storage and infrastructure capacity as your data volumes and retention requirements grow.
Multiple Backup Options
Choose from Veeam, Acronis and other backup approaches based on your workloads and recovery requirements.
Data Centre Options
Build backup strategies across Australian data centre infrastructure, including separation between environments where required.
Technical Expertise
Access Australian support and Professional Services to help design, implement and manage more complex backup environments.
Find the right approach for your data, workloads and recovery requirements.
Steps to Success
Turn Backup Into a Business Strategy
Move from simply creating copies of data to a planned backup strategy designed around protection, recovery and business continuity.
| Backup Consideration | Plan | Protect | Succeed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Data | Identify what's important | Maintain appropriate backup copies | Recover information when it's needed |
| Retention | Decide how much data you can afford to lose | Create recovery points at appropriate intervals | Return to a suitable point in time |
| Designing and deploying physical infrastructure can take months. | Determine how long copies are required | Maintain multiple recovery points | Give the business more recovery options |
| Storage | Understand capacity and separation requirements | Use appropriate backup storage | Keep recovery data available as requirements grow |
| Offsite Copies | Identify what should be separated | Keep copies away from production infrastructure | Maintain recovery options if the primary environment is affected |
| Security needs to be managed across physical infrastructure, devices and access points | Identify critical applications and servers | Protect supporting data and workloads | Restore important services following disruption |
| Moving workloads between physical platforms can be complex, time-consuming and disruptive | Define how recovery should work | Maintain the data required to recover | Restore what the business needs and keep moving |
Resources
Backup & Restore Resources
Explore guides, insights and technical resources to help you plan your backup strategy, protect critical data and workloads, and prepare for recovery when it’s needed.
FAQ's
Which backup solution is right for my Servers Australia environment?
The right approach depends on what you need to protect, how frequently your data changes, retention requirements and how you need to recover. Our team can help determine which backup, storage and recovery options suit your environment.
Does Servers Australia offer both Veeam and Acronis backup solutions?
Yes. Servers Australia provides enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery solutions through our own highly available, self-hosted, data-sovereign Acronis Cyber Infrastructure stretched cluster, alongside Veeam Enterprise backup and recovery solutions delivered across Australia. We own, operate, maintain and support our backup infrastructure, providing customers with secure, reliable and scalable data protection tailored to their business and recovery requirements.
Can I keep my backups separate from my production environment?
Yes. Backup solutions can be designed with separation between production and backup infrastructure, including offsite or data centre-to-data centre approaches where appropriate.
Can my backup solution grow as our data increases?
Yes. All Servers Australia backup solutions are designed with scalability in mind. Our fully Australian-hosted, data-sovereign Acronis and Veeam backup platforms are built on infrastructure that we own, operate and maintain. With direct-to-disk and enterprise storage technologies underpinning our backup services, we manage the entire storage infrastructure so you don't have to. This allows your backup capacity, frequency and retention to scale seamlessly as your business grows, without the complexity or cost of managing your own backup infrastructure.
Can Servers Australia help design and implement our backup strategy?
Yes. Our technical team and Professional Services can help assess your workloads, recovery requirements and existing infrastructure, then assist with designing and implementing an appropriate backup solution.
Use Cases
Someone Deleted Something Important
Recover business files or data when information is accidentally deleted, overwritten or changed.
A Security Incident Affects Your Data
Maintain recovery options when ransomware, malware or another security incident compromises production data.
A Critical System Goes Down
Restore protected data and workloads when hardware, software or infrastructure failure affects an important system.
You Need an Earlier Version
Return to a suitable recovery point when current data has become corrupted, incorrect or unusable.
Your Business Data Keeps Growing
Scale backup capacity and retention as applications, customers and the amount of data your business generates increase.
Your Primary Environment Is Unavailable
Keep appropriately separated backup copies so recovery isn't entirely dependent on the infrastructure affected by an outage or incident.
Resources
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