Backup & Business Continuity
Ensuring critical business data can be recovered when it matters.
Data loss and service disruption are not theoretical risks. Hardware failure, human error, ransomware and service outages all have the potential to interrupt operations and cause lasting damage if recovery is not properly planned.
Our backup and business continuity services are designed to ensure that your critical systems and data can be recovered in a controlled, predictable way, with clear ownership and documented evidence.
Managed Backup Services in Southend and Essex
Backups are only effective if they are monitored, maintained, and tested.
Plan IT Support provides managed backup services covering core business systems and cloud platforms, including Microsoft 365. This ensures that email, files, and collaboration data can be recovered independently of platform retention policies or user error.
Backups are monitored and reviewed on an ongoing basis to ensure they are completing successfully and remain fit for purpose as the environment changes.
Ransomware and Recovery Planning
Ransomware incidents increasingly target backups as well as live systems. We design backup and recovery arrangements with this in mind, including the use of immutable backups where appropriate. This reduces reliance on attackers’ goodwill and supports more predictable recovery outcomes.
What we can do for you
Effective business continuity planning requires clarity around recovery expectations.
We work with organisations to agree appropriate recovery objectives based on operational impact rather than best-case assumptions. Where required, recovery processes are tested periodically to confirm that data can be restored within agreed parameters.
This provides confidence that recovery plans are practical, not just theoretical.
Our Approach
Backup and continuity services are typically delivered as part of an ongoing managed IT service, but can also be provided as a standalone engagement.
We begin by identifying critical systems and data, reviewing existing backup arrangements, and agreeing recovery priorities. From there, we implement and manage appropriate solutions, providing ongoing oversight and documentation.
Who Is This For?
These services are suited to organisations that:
- Depend on access to email, files, and systems to operate
- Hold sensitive or business-critical data
- Need to evidence backup and recovery arrangements to insurers or auditors
- Want predictable recovery outcomes rather than ad-hoc fixes
The objective is not zero disruption; it is controlled recovery with minimal uncertainty.
Our clients will gain confidence that critical data is protected, recovery arrangements are understood, and responsibilities are clearly defined before an incident occurs.