We restore from your backups every month.

Servers, Microsoft 365 and the applications you run the business on are backed up nightly to an on-site copy and an encrypted off-site copy. Each month we restore one workload from those copies to confirm the data comes back. The jobs, the off-site copies and the recovery plans are all run by Evolve Technologies, for clients on the Gold Coast and in Brisbane and Toowoomba.

The service

Backups run nightly and restores run monthly.

We size the storage and the retention windows to the data you hold, and the recovery targets for each system are agreed with you up front.

Automated daily backups

Servers, Microsoft 365 data and the applications you run the business on, backed up nightly. A failed job raises an alert to our engineers.

Encrypted, on-site & off-site

Primary copies stay on site for fast restores and replicate to off-site storage, encrypted at rest and in transit.

Tested restores

Each month we restore a production workload from backup and record how long it took and whether the data was complete.

Microsoft 365 backup

Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams are backed up by a third-party tool, because Microsoft's own retention settings hold deleted items for a limited period and are not a backup.

Documented recovery plans

Stated RTOs and RPOs, a runbook for each major scenario and a named owner for each step in it.

Retention & compliance

Retention windows set to your industry's record-keeping obligations: seven years for financial records, longer for legal or clinical data. Every backup kept is logged with its date.

RTO & RPO stated up front

Each system has a recovery time and a recovery point.

The Recovery Time Objective is how long a system takes to come back. The Recovery Point Objective is how much data you could lose.

We agree both numbers with you before the design, size the backup to meet them and record them in your disaster-recovery plan.

Ransomware

Ransomware cannot delete the immutable copies.

We keep immutable copies locked for their retention period, and air-gapped copies with no network path from your environment.

Both sit outside the reach of a compromised administrator account, so a restore after a ransomware event starts from an intact copy.

Reviews

The recovery plan is reviewed with your leadership.

Strategic reviews cover what has changed in the business, new systems to bring into the backup, and whether the recovery targets still fit.

Each review ends with the plan updated and any new workloads added to the schedule.

Case studies

A strata manager's backups are now test-restored every month.

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Strata

Quarter-end back inside business hours for a strata manager

A strata manager running StrataMax across 15 workstations was losing admin time to slow quarter-end reporting, backups that had never been test-restored, and a run of printer and scanner faults. We moved StrataMax onto a cloud platform sized for the firm's current workload, added a second internet service with automatic failover, rebuilt all 15 workstations from a standard image, and set up daily backups with a test restore every month.

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Backup questions

Most backup conversations start with these three questions.

How often does Evolve Technologies test backups?

Monthly. For every client we back up, Evolve Technologies restores a production workload from backup each month and records the result. Backups run daily, copies are encrypted on site and off site, and immutable copies sit where a compromised account cannot delete them.

Does Microsoft 365 need a separate backup?

Yes. Microsoft's retention settings have limited windows, offer no point-in-time restore of a whole mailbox or site, and can be emptied by a compromised admin account. Evolve Technologies runs a third-party backup of Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams for its Queensland clients, tested on the same monthly schedule.

Is Evolve Technologies a Veeam partner?

Veeam is the Evolve Technologies standard platform for server, virtual machine and Microsoft 365 backup, and we hold Veeam ProPartner status. Every recovery plan states the recovery time and recovery point objectives up front, so you know before an incident how long systems take to come back and how much data you could lose.

Backup partners

Microsoft

Solutions Partner
Modern Work

Veeam

ProPartner

Test the restore before you need it.

The first step is a review of your current backup jobs, retention and last successful restore.

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