Backup And Disaster Recovery Atlanta, GA
Off-site backups that cannot be changed or erased, kept for twelve months and test-restored every quarter, so you confirm recovery works on a scheduled test day rather than during the worst week of your year.
UniVirtual Solutions provides backup and disaster recovery for businesses in Atlanta and across Georgia, built on unchangeable copies stored off site where an attacker holding your credentials cannot reach them, a full year of history, and a recovery test every quarter. The point of the testing is that your recovery time is known rather than hoped for.
Most Backups Are Not Tested Until The Day They Fail
Almost every business we take on already has a backup of some kind. Very few of them have ever restored from it. That gap is where the real risk lives, because a backup job that reports success can still produce a file set nobody can actually use: a database mid-write, a mailbox missing the last four months, or an image that will not boot on different hardware. Here is how to find out whether your backup has ever been tested.
Ransomware made this worse rather than better. Modern attacks specifically hunt backups first, and a backup sitting on a network share with domain credentials is not a backup at all once an attacker has those credentials. If it can be reached, it can be encrypted, and businesses discover this at exactly the moment they need it most.
Backup and disaster recovery is not a product you buy. It is a set of commitments about how quickly you can be working again, tested often enough that the answer is known rather than hoped for.
What Happens When You Need To Restore
A disaster recovery is a stressful hour for a business and a routine hour for us, because the sequence has already been rehearsed on your data. This is how it runs.
In disaster recovery, we first establish what was lost, at what point in time, and which systems depend on it. That determines whether we restore files, a mailbox, a server or an entire environment.
If the loss is a security event, containment happens first. Restoring into a compromised environment simply re-infects the restored data.
We recover from immutable off-site copies that the incident could not reach, working to the recovery point and recovery time we agreed in advance.
Nothing is signed off until you confirm the data is usable in the applications that depend on it, not merely present on disk.
What Is Included
Backup comes with every agreement, and it deepens as your obligations do.
- Encrypted workstation backup, kept immutable for 12 months
- Microsoft 365 backup, because Microsoft protects the platform and you remain responsible for the data
- Twelve months of immutable off-site copies that ransomware can neither encrypt nor delete
- Microsoft 365 backup kept for 365 days, covering mailboxes, SharePoint and OneDrive
- Encrypted bare-metal server backup with off-site replication
- Documented recovery procedures for everything covered, written down rather than held in one person’s head
- Quarterly recovery validation testing that proves the restore actually works
- Agreed recovery point and recovery time objectives, so the expectation is set before the incident rather than after
A Backup An Attacker Can Reach Is Not A Backup
Immutable means the stored copy cannot be altered or deleted for the length of its retention window, by anybody, including an administrator whose credentials have been stolen. That single property is the difference between a bad week and an existential one.
It is also increasingly what your cyber insurer is asking about. Carriers have learned which controls actually reduce claim severity, and immutable off-site backup with tested recovery sits near the top of that list.
What This Means Where You Work
Law Firms
Matter files and case management databases have retention obligations that outlast most backup and disaster recovery policies. We set retention to your obligations rather than to a default.
Distribution & Logistics
An ERP outage stops picking, shipping and invoicing at once. Disaster recovery objectives are set against a shift, not against a working day.
Manufacturing
Plant-floor systems and their configurations are often the hardest thing to rebuild and the least well documented. We back up the configuration, not only the data.
We Test The Restore So You Never Have To Find Out The Hard Way
Quarterly disaster recovery validation is the part most providers skip, because it takes real engineering time and produces no visible benefit in a quarter where nothing went wrong. It is also the only thing that turns a backup from an assumption into a fact.
You receive the result of that test. If a restore is slower than the objective we agreed, that is a finding we bring to you with a plan, rather than a surprise we discover together during an incident.
Questions We Get Asked
Plain answers to the backup and disaster recovery questions owners raise before changing providers. Missing yours? Call 678-374-4352 and talk it through with an engineer.
Continuously for most systems, with retention set to your obligations. The precise schedule is agreed during onboarding and documented so there is no ambiguity.
The stored copy cannot be modified or deleted for the length of its retention window, even by an administrator account. That is what makes it survive a ransomware event.
Yes. Microsoft guarantees the availability of the service, not the recoverability of your data. Deleted mailboxes, SharePoint sites and OneDrive content are your responsibility, and we cover them.
That depends on what was lost and the objectives we set together. We agree recovery point and recovery time objectives in advance so the answer is a commitment rather than an estimate.
Every quarter, with the result reported to you. An untested backup is an assumption, and assumptions are what fail during incidents.
Certified Engineers Across Georgia
Backup and disaster recovery clients of ours run offices in metro Atlanta, Marietta and Alpharetta, and in Georgia cities such as Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Columbus. Most restores begin remotely, inside the recovery times we publish, and an engineer travels out when a recovery needs new hardware or physical access. We help clients outside Georgia where it makes sense.
What To Look For In Backup And Disaster Recovery
Claims about backup and disaster recovery are nearly interchangeable, and the real test is which recovery targets a provider will write down. Ask for the recovery point and recovery time objectives, agreed before an incident rather than after.
Ask whether the backup is immutable, meaning nobody can alter or delete it during its retention window, including an administrator whose credentials were stolen. Then ask to see the last restore test. Disaster recovery that has never been tested is a hope, not a plan. Restore results are recorded against NIST CSF, CISA guidance and CIS v8, each where it applies, giving an auditor or underwriter dated proof that recovery works.
Our own bar for backup and disaster recovery in Atlanta comes down to three things: a year of unalterable off-site copies, a restore exercise each quarter, and the outcome of every disaster recovery test in your hands.
Find Out Whether Your Backup Would Actually Restore
A free assessment includes a genuine look at your current backup, disaster recovery and retention position, and you keep the findings either way.