If Everything Stopped Working Tomorrow, How Long Could You Survive?
Managed backup and disaster recovery — so your business can recover fast from ransomware, hardware failure, or human error.
Backup Is Not the Same as Recovery
Most businesses have some form of backup. Far fewer have tested whether that backup can actually restore their systems in a usable timeframe when it matters.
A backup that takes four days to restore is not a disaster recovery plan. A backup stored in the same physical location as the original data doesn’t protect you from fire, flood, or ransomware that encrypts both simultaneously. A backup that has never been tested may not work at all.
The only metric that matters is how quickly you can get back to work after something goes wrong. Everything else is just files on a drive.
What We Manage
Host-It deploys and manages Comet Backup across your servers, workstations, and critical data sources. Backups run automatically on defined schedules, are encrypted in transit and at rest, and are stored in secure offsite cloud storage — physically separate from your primary systems.
What’s Included
- Automated daily backups of servers, endpoints, and critical data
- Encrypted offsite storage — your data is protected even if your office is compromised
- Multiple retention points — restore from today, last week, or last month depending on your needs
- Regular restore testing — we verify backups actually work, not just that they exist
- Monitoring and alerting — failed backups are flagged and investigated before they become a problem
- Fast recovery options — file-level, full system, and bare-metal restore depending on the scenario
- Monthly backup reports — visibility into what’s protected, what’s been tested, and storage usage
The Ransomware Reality
Ransomware remains one of the most common and damaging threats facing Irish SMEs. Attackers encrypt your files and demand payment for the decryption key. Businesses without a clean, tested, offsite backup are left with two options: pay the ransom or start from scratch.
Businesses with a properly managed backup can restore from before the infection point, remove the threat, and resume operations — without paying a penny.
But only if the backup is clean, current, offsite, and tested. That’s what we ensure.
What a Disaster Recovery Plan Actually Looks Like
A real DR plan goes beyond just having backups. It defines:
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) — how quickly do you need to be back online?
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) — how much data loss is acceptable?
- Recovery procedures — who does what, in what order, and how?
- Test schedule — when did we last verify this actually works?
Host-It works with you to define these parameters and build a recovery plan that fits your business — not a generic template.
GDPR and Data Protection
Under GDPR, you have obligations around the availability and integrity of personal data. A data loss event that affects client or employee data may require notification to the Data Protection Commission — and that’s before considering the reputational and operational damage.
A properly managed backup and recovery system is one of the most direct ways to demonstrate you’ve taken appropriate technical measures to protect personal data.
Book a Free Backup Assessment
We’ll review what you’re currently backing up, where it’s stored, when it was last tested, and whether your recovery time would be acceptable in a real incident. No obligation — just a clear picture of where you stand.
Book Your Free Backup Assessment
Or download our free guide: Secured: The Cybersecurity Survival Guide for Irish Business Owners — backup and recovery is covered in full in Chapter 4.