Our Backup Services

Virtual machines can be a fantastic way to remotely run multiple systems from a single machine physically based somewhere – allowing for easy access for staff regardless of location, and simple ways to add more systems to a network, without unnecessarily increasing hardware.

This does, however, mean that the physical hardware is more vital than ever; it’s responsible for multiple virtual machines, so downtime or hardware failure here can have a much more significant impact across a business.
Here at Backup Systems,  backups are made while virtual machines are still running, and can be configured to include all or just a selection of virtual systems.We connect to virtual environments directly, including Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX and Citrix XEN, which means your machines can be up and running again in a matter of minutes – with virtually no downtime.

We can take backups at any specified intervals, whether that’s daily, weekly or in ‘real time’ as systems are constantly running. The storage of the images employs block level de-duplication which minimises the amount of storage space actually used.

Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation platform offers your business the chance to run multiple operating systems from one server. This enables you to use the hardware more effectively, but it also means fewer pieces of server equipment – so it’s much more convenient. However, with this reliance comes the need to secure all your data. Your business is putting a lot of trust in a platform providing access to files and virtual machines so an effective backup strategy is essential – and that’s where our solutions at Backup Systems come in.Our Hyper-V backup provides:
Fast incremental backups.
A reliable & safe platform for SMEs.
Entire Hyper-V server backups; no need for us to connect to single machines for individual backups.
Real-time backups; little data loss. Regardless of whether disaster strikes, hardware fails or data loss occurs. We’ll be able to restore your virtual environment exactly as it was – not only will your virtual hard disks be backed up, but also the full virtual machine configuration.

Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 contain important information, files or correspondence stored in mailboxes.  Our Exchange backup solution offers:
– A complete and consistently checked backup of the Microsoft Exchange Database Stores
– A fully searchable email archive for an unlimited number of mailboxes
– Office 365 email archive for an unlimited number of mailboxes
– A complete image including the operating system which can be started up in minutes
Emails kept in a Microsoft exchange backup can be kept in a local replicated archive, and are available for recovery in Microsoft’s native email format (*.msg) – making the process fast and effective, with no complex restoration.

When working remotely, if anything happens to a laptop, all work carried out over months or even years can be lost, so it is essential to backup the data stored on these devices.

Here at Backup Systems, we ensure that any number of your business’s laptops are backed up consistently, minimising the risk of data loss due to out-of-date backups.

This means that, regardless of the type of system failure or loss when working out of the office or simply ‘hot desking’ internally, any valuable files are always backed up – ready to be restored in a matter of minutes.

Our laptop backup service is built around you, your business and your needs. You get to choose which laptops and how many of them are connected to our onsite backup server, as well as which files are backed up. This allows you to specifically select the important data you can’t afford to lose – whether that’s account records, customer work or internal documents.The transfer is encrypted in transit for maximum security, and can be controlled by the user to reduce interference with other applications. All back-ups are integrated with your other backed up data, and can be accessed in exactly the same way – making the restoring of lost data as easy as possible.

Email archiving is the process of taking the mailboxes of given email accounts and keeping a secure and separate copy of all individual messages. These can then later be restored or remotely accessed in the event of system failure or data loss.

Access to archived emails is possible in seconds; retrieved using a simple front-end programme, searches of any backed up mailboxes allow for messages to be opened in a client like Microsoft Outlook or restored to an account’s inbox.

Our email archiving solutions can be used independently or as part of a wider disaster recovery strategy. In addition to cloud storage access for all archived emails, we also keep a local and replicated archive in native Microsoft (.msg) file format – allowing for easy recovery into most major email clients.