Backup and Disaster Recovery Sydney

No. Microsoft 365 includes short-term retention and recycle bins, but it is not a backup. Microsoft operates a shared responsibility model: they keep the service running, and you are responsible for your data. Deleted mailboxes, ransomware-encrypted files and items that age out of retention may be unrecoverable without a separate backup. We run dedicated Microsoft 365 backup covering Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.

Backup is a copy of your data. Disaster recovery is the plan for getting the whole business running again: which systems come back first, how long it takes and who does what. You need both. A backup without a recovery plan still leaves you guessing on the worst day of the year.

Keep three copies of your data, on two different types of storage, with one copy offsite. We extend this with an immutable or air-gapped copy so ransomware cannot encrypt or delete every copy at once.

We monitor backup jobs daily and perform documented restore tests quarterly. A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a backup.

Yes, provided your backup design includes an isolated or immutable copy the ransomware cannot reach, which is exactly how we design it. Recovery time depends on data volume and is agreed in advance as a recovery time objective, so you know the answer before you need it.

For most Sydney SMEs, managed backup runs from a few hundred dollars per month depending on data volume, number of systems and retention requirements. A full disaster recovery design is a fixed-scope project quoted after an initial assessment. Book a Free IT Health Check and we will tell you exactly where you stand.