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Business Continuity & Backups

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.
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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.

Disaster Recovery Solution

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.

Some Key Terms you need to know:

  • Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is an essential part of an organisation’s disaster response planning. It sets out how the business will operate following any disruption and how it expects to return to ‘business as usual’ in the quickest possible time afterward. Your disaster recovery plan is part of this as well as many non-IT related issues.

  • Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is a document that outlines how your business will recover from any ICT failure. It will cover when, how, and where your services will be recovered after a disaster and how your employees will become productive again if your building is uninhabitable. This is a basic plan for your business.

  • 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.

Creating Backups in New Ways

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. Now, it’s all about business continuity.

Qbit can create standby servers so that you can be recovered within minutes in the event of a hardware failure on your main server or even a virus. For more information on offsite backups visit

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