Backup Solutions in Calgary

Backup solutions in Calgary are a natural follow-on to the data recovery work we see. Almost every lost-file emergency traces back to one of three gaps: no backup at all, a backup that quietly stopped running months ago, or a backup kept in the same office as the computer it was protecting. Fixing those gaps costs far less than recovering from them. Calgary offices face the same risks as anywhere: failed drives, stolen laptops, ransomware, burst pipes in a January cold snap and plain human error. A sound backup plan answers each of these with a copy that is current, separate and easy to restore.

We design backups around a simple principle often called the 3-2-1 rule: keep at least three copies of important data, on two different types of storage, with one copy off-site. For a small office that might mean a local backup drive plus encrypted cloud storage. For businesses running servers or virtual machines, we set up Veeam-based backups that capture whole systems, so a failed server can be rebuilt rather than reinstalled piece by piece. Retention is set deliberately, so you can go back days or weeks to before a problem started, not just to last night, which may already contain the damage.

The part most setups skip is testing. A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a plan. We schedule periodic test restores, check that backup jobs are completing and alert you when something fails. Websites are included too: if we host or maintain your site, its files and database are backed up separately from your office systems. You receive a short document describing what is backed up, where the copies live, how long they are kept and how to start a restore, so the knowledge does not sit only with us.