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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Perth

Every hour your systems are unavailable can mean lost productivity, missed revenue and frustrated customers. Qbit provides reliable business continuity Perth organisations can depend on to keep critical systems, applications and information available during unexpected disruptions. Our solutions combine data backup Perth, disaster recovery, cloud recovery and Datto backup Perth services into a practical business continuity plan tailored to your operational requirements. Whether you experience equipment failure, human error, a power outage, ransomware or another cyberattack, Qbit helps your business recover quickly and return to normal operations. Our solutions combine data backup Perth, disaster recovery, cloud recovery and Datto backup Perth services into a practical business continuity plan tailored to your operational requirements. Whether you experience equipment failure, human error, a power outage, ransomware or another cyberattack, Qbit helps your business recover quickly and return to normal operations.
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Could Your Business Recover From a Major IT Failure?

Imagine starting the day without access to your accounting system, customer records, emails, documents or business applications.

  • How long could your staff continue working?
  • How much revenue would be lost?
  • Could you confidently tell customers when services would be restored?

A backup may protect a copy of your information, but it does not automatically mean your business can recover within an acceptable timeframe.

A properly designed business continuity plan Perth businesses can rely on considers:

  • Which systems are critical to business operations
  • How quickly each system must be restored
  • How much recent data the business can afford to lose
  • Where employees will work during a disruption
  • How customers, suppliers and staff will be kept informed
  • Who has the authority to activate the recovery plan
  • How the plan and backups will be regularly tested

The Cost of Being Unprepared

In 2024-25, the average self-reported cost of cybercrime for an Australian small business reached $56,600 per report, an increase of 14% from the previous year. The total cost of extended downtime, lost information, recovery work and reputational damage can be considerably higher.

Source: ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25

Qbit’s business continuity services are designed to prevent a serious technology failure or data loss from becoming a business-threatening event.

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Backups

There is a big difference between a Backup and a Disaster Recovery Solution. Backups just make sure your data is safe, they do not consider how long it will take to get your IT systems back up and running. Most businesses now require a Disaster Recovery Solution as part of their business continuity plan because they cannot afford to not have IT services for 24 hours while servers are restored.

Backups and test restores are Qbit’s most important role in your business. We pride ourselves on ensuring that your data is recoverable in the event of a disaster. While most of the time at Qbit we try to keep IT jargon to a minimum when it comes to this subject, it is important that the key people in every business know what to expect from their current backup solution. They need to take this information and fit it into their Business Continuity Plan and ensure that it meets their expectations.

Benefits of a Robust Disaster Recovery Plan

Minimised Downtime: Swift recovery reduces downtime, enabling your business to resume normal operations promptly.

Protects Reputation: Proactive planning demonstrates reliability and resilience to customers, partners, and stakeholders.

Compliance and Assurance: DRPs help businesses meet regulatory requirements and provide assurance to clients and investors about operational continuity.

Some Key Terms you need to know:

  • A Business Continuity Plan, or BCP, explains how your organisation will continue operating during and after a major disruption. It considers technology recovery as well as people, premises, suppliers, communications and manual workarounds.

  • A Disaster Recovery Plan, or DRP, focuses on restoring your technology. It documents which systems will be recovered, the order in which they will be restored, where they will operate and who is responsible for each recovery action.

    Qbit provides disaster recovery Perth businesses can align with their operational priorities and tolerance for downtime.

  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the time in which services must be restored to avoid significant financial and reputation loss. It is useful to work out the loss of income per hour to your business before you set this time.

  • Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the amount of data that your business will lose if there is a disaster. The RPO can be different depending on if the recovery can be instigated from on-site backups or if it has to rely on off-site backups or Archives. It is also useful to work out the cost of re-creating that data before you set this time.

  • Archive is a system that keeps all changes to files and databases that are selected. The retention period is typically set to 12 months or more. While all data selected is recoverable, it can be a slow process to recover a whole server.

  • A backup creates a recoverable copy of your information. Backups are essential, but they are only one part of business continuity. Without the right infrastructure, documentation and testing, restoring a complete server or application from backup can still take hours or days.

What Is Included in Qbit’s Business Continuity Services?

Qbit develops business continuity and disaster recovery solutions around the way your organisation operates. Depending on your requirements, this may include:

  • Business impact and technology risk assessments
  • Identification of critical systems and recovery priorities
  • Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective planning
  • On-site, cloud and off-site data backups
  • Datto SIRIS backup and disaster recovery solutions
  • Microsoft 365 and cloud application backups
  • Standby server and cloud recovery options
  • Protected and isolated backup copies
  • Automated monitoring of backup success and failures
  • Documented disaster recovery procedures
  • Regular recovery testing and reporting
  • Ransomware and cyberattack recovery planning
  • Annual reviews and continuity plan updates

What Is a Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?

A Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum acceptable amount of time a system can remain unavailable after an incident.

For example, if your accounting platform has an RTO of four hours, your recovery solution should be designed to restore access within four hours.

Systems that support revenue generation, operations or customer service often require much shorter RTOs than less critical applications.

What Is a Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?

A Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines the maximum amount of recent data your business can afford to lose.

For example, an RPO of 30 minutes means your backup solution must enable recovery to a point no more than 30 minutes before the disruption.

Businesses processing frequent transactions often require much shorter RPOs than organisations where information changes less frequently.

Cyberattack and Ransomware Recovery

Ransomware can encrypt files, disable servers, compromise cloud accounts and prevent employees from accessing essential business systems.

Modern attacks may also target connected backups, making recovery significantly more difficult.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre advises that restoring from an unaffected backup is the best recovery method following ransomware. It also recommends regularly testing restorations and preventing unauthorised accounts from modifying or deleting backup data.

Protected and isolated backups, combined with documented recovery procedures, are essential to reducing downtime following a cyber incident.

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Recover Information Within Minutes

What would it mean to your company if you lost all your data? Think about having to recover from no accounts, no emails, no business documents you’ve created. Business continuity is lost. Often, businesses don’t backup, and those that do don’t regularly run test restores.

The old way of creating backups was just to protect the data. If the computer failed you would have to reload the operating system, reload all the programs, configure it all and then reload your data. With a Server it could take two days to get it up and running to where it was before the failure.

Qbit can create a business continuity plan with standby servers so that you can be recovered within minutes in the event of a hardware failure on your main server or even a Cyber Security event. Qbit has researched many disaster recovery solutions and highly recommends Datto Siris. Datto Siris has proven to be reliable, easy to manage, quick to recover from and has complete cloud integration to Australian data centres.

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Supporting SMB1001 Gold Alignment

Qbit has achieved SMB1001 Gold certification within our own business, giving our team practical experience implementing and maintaining structured cybersecurity controls.

Our business continuity and cyber recovery services can support your SMB1001 journey through:

  • Protected backups
  • Access controls
  • Recovery testing
  • Incident response planning
  • Risk management
  • Documented evidence of ongoing improvement

SMB1001 certification requires more than installing backup software. Qbit can help assess your existing environment, identify control gaps and develop a practical improvement plan aligned with your desired certification level.

Why Choose Qbit?

  • More than 20 years of experience supporting Western Australian businesses
  • Trusted by more than 300 businesses
  • SMB1001 Gold Certified
  • ISO 27001 Information Security Certified
  • ISO 9001 Quality Management Certified
  • Experienced local support and project teams
  • Proven backup, cloud and disaster recovery solutions

Ongoing monitoring, testing and strategic reviews

Qbit’s Business Continuity Planning Process

1. Assess

We identify your critical systems, applications, information, suppliers and business dependencies.

2. Define

We work with your leadership team to establish appropriate RTOs, RPOs and recovery priorities.

3. Design and Implement

Qbit designs and deploys the backup, recovery and continuity solution required to meet those objectives.

4. Document and Test

Recovery procedures are documented and tested to confirm that systems and information can be restored successfully.

5. Review and Improve

Your plan is regularly reviewed as your business, technology and cyber risks change.

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions

A business continuity plan should identify critical operations, systems, information, employees and suppliers. It should establish recovery priorities, define responsibilities, document alternative working arrangements and explain how the business will communicate during an incident.

Technology recovery requirements, including backups, RTOs, RPOs and testing, should form part of the wider plan.

A backup protects a copy of your information. Disaster recovery covers the complete process of restoring systems, applications, configurations and data following an incident.

A backup may contain the information you need, but a disaster recovery solution determines how quickly that information and its supporting systems can be made operational.

Testing frequency should reflect the importance and rate of change of each system. Critical recovery procedures should generally be tested at least annually and whenever major infrastructure, applications or suppliers change.

Backup jobs should be monitored continuously, with restoration tests conducted regularly to confirm the information is usable.

Yes, provided the backups are complete, unaffected by the attack and able to be restored.

Recovery should only begin after the incident has been contained and the cause of the compromise has been addressed. Otherwise, recovered systems may be reinfected.

Protected or isolated backups and regularly tested recovery procedures are essential.

The cost depends on:

  • Number of systems
  • Volume of data
  • Backup frequency
  • Recovery time requirements
  • Risk profile

Qbit assesses your operational requirements and recommends a solution based on your RTO, RPO, business priorities and budget

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Be Confident Your Business Can Recover

Do not wait for a hardware failure, cyberattack or major data loss to discover that your backups and recovery arrangements are inadequate.

Contact Qbit for a free assessment of your current business continuity, backup and disaster recovery capability.