Backup and Disaster Recovery That Works When Everything Else Fails
Automated backups, tested recovery plans, and the confidence that your business can survive whatever comes next.
The Backup You Have Might Not Save You
Here is a statistic that should concern every business owner: 68% of companies discover their backups do not work during an actual disaster. The backups were running. The logs looked clean. But when they needed to restore, something was broken — a corrupted image, an expired credential, a changed configuration that nobody accounted for.
Backup disaster recovery is not about having backups. It is about having tested, verified, recoverable backups and a plan for what happens when your primary systems go down.
What We Protect
We back up everything your business depends on. Servers, workstations, Microsoft 365 data (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams), line-of-business application databases, and cloud infrastructure. Every backup is encrypted in transit and at rest, stored in UK data centres, and replicated to a separate geographic location.
For Microsoft 365, this matters more than most businesses realise. Microsoft’s native retention policies have gaps. Deleted mailboxes are purged after 30 days. SharePoint recycle bin items expire. Teams chat data is not backed up in any meaningful way by default. Our M365 backup fills those gaps with granular recovery going back 12 months or more.
Immutable Storage Stops Ransomware
The most dangerous ransomware variants now target backups first. They find your backup repositories, encrypt or delete them, and then encrypt your production systems. Without backups, you are left choosing between paying the ransom and starting from scratch.
Our backup architecture uses immutable storage. Once data is written, it cannot be modified or deleted for a defined retention period — not by administrators, not by attackers, not by anyone. This is the single most effective defence against ransomware destroying your recovery options.
DRaaS for Business Continuity
For businesses where prolonged downtime is not acceptable, we offer disaster recovery as a service. Your critical servers and applications are continuously replicated to our cloud recovery platform. If your primary site goes down — whether from ransomware, hardware failure, fire, or flood — we fail over to the replica environment.
Your team connects to the recovery environment via VPN and continues working while we remediate the primary site. For our financial services clients, this capability is not optional. FCA operational resilience requirements and DORA mandate that firms can demonstrate recovery within defined tolerances.
We test this quarterly, document the results, and adjust the plan as your environment evolves. When the regulator asks how you would recover from a major incident, you hand them the report.
Why choose Nerdster
Backups That Are Actually Tested
We test recovery quarterly and provide documented proof it works. 68% of businesses that think they have good backups discover failures during their first real restore. We find those failures in testing, not in a crisis.
Ransomware-Proof Storage
Our backup architecture uses immutable storage that ransomware cannot encrypt or delete. Even if attackers compromise your entire network, your backups remain intact and recoverable.
Recovery in Hours, Not Days
Our DRaaS clients can spin up their entire environment in the cloud within 4 hours. For firms where every hour of downtime costs thousands, that speed makes the difference between inconvenience and catastrophe.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Doesn't Microsoft back up our 365 data?
Microsoft guarantees infrastructure availability, not your data. If someone deletes a SharePoint site, an employee's mailbox is wiped, or ransomware encrypts OneDrive files beyond the version history window, Microsoft will not recover it for you. You need a separate backup.
How often are backups taken?
Standard configuration is three times daily for servers and once daily for Microsoft 365 data. For clients with lower RPO requirements, we offer continuous replication with recovery points every 15 minutes.
Where is our backup data stored?
Primary backups are stored in UK-based data centres. Offsite replicas go to a geographically separate UK facility. For clients with data sovereignty requirements, all storage remains within the UK.
What does a disaster recovery test involve?
We simulate a complete site failure, spin up your environment from backups in our DRaaS platform, verify all applications and data are functional, and document the results including actual recovery times. Your team can participate or we handle it independently.
How quickly can you recover a single file versus an entire server?
Individual file restores typically complete within 15 minutes. A full server recovery from bare metal takes 2-6 hours depending on data volume. DRaaS failover for virtualised environments completes within 1-4 hours.
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