Enterprise Backup & Recovery
to Recover With Confidence.
Protect critical servers, applications and business data with
backup and recovery architecture designed around your
infrastructure, retention requirements, recovery objectives
and operational priorities.
Server BackupServers, VMs, databases and files protected.
Data RecoveryRestore files, servers, VMs or databases.
Retention PlanningKeep the right restore points for the right time.
Recovery StrategyRPO and RTO planned around your priorities.
Share your data size, backup frequency, retention and
recovery requirements. Our team will review them and
recommend a backup architecture.
What is backup and recovery
Recoverable Copies of Everything That Matters
Backup creates recoverable copies of important data and systems. Recovery is the process of restoring those copies when production data is lost, corrupted or unavailable.
A complete approach considers backup frequency, retention, storage location, recovery priorities and how quickly systems must be restored, designed around your infrastructure rather than a one-size-fits-all schedule.
Backup
Create copies of critical data and infrastructure
Retain
Keep restore points according to requirements
Verify
Validate backup availability and recovery readiness
Recover
Restore required data or systems when needed
Illustrative. Final architecture depends on data size, backup frequency, retention requirements, recovery objectives and supported platforms.
Backup solutions
Protection for Every Critical Workload
From individual files to complete servers and virtual machines, backup is designed around what your business cannot afford to lose.
Server backup
Protect dedicated servers and supported virtual infrastructure.
File and data backup
Protect critical files, directories and business data.
Database backup
Backup workflows for supported database environments.
Virtual machine backup
Protect supported virtual machines and workloads.
Offsite backup
Secondary copies kept away from primary production storage.
Custom backup architecture
Designed around workload size, retention and recovery needs.
Backup strategy should reflect how your servers, applications, storage and networks actually operate. HostGraber combines backup with infrastructure monitoring, server management and disaster recovery.
Enterprise Backup and Recovery: Objectives, Retention and Restoration
An overview for IT teams responsible for data protection: how recovery objectives shape backup design, how retention is structured and which recovery options to plan for.
Recovery objectives: RPO and RTO
Two objectives define how a backup and recovery solution should be designed. Agreeing them first ensures the architecture matches business expectations.
Objective
What it represents
Design impact
RPO
How much recent data the organisation can tolerate losing
Lower RPO requires more frequent backups or replication
RTO
How quickly a system should be restored after an incident
Recovery architecture is designed to meet the required window
Retention planning
Retention defines how long backup copies are kept before they are rotated or removed. A tiered approach balances recovery flexibility against storage capacity:
Tier
Purpose
Daily
Recent operational restore points
Weekly
Extended rollback points
Monthly
Longer-term retention
Custom
Retention according to business policy
Archival
Long-term storage where required
Recovery options
Not every incident requires a full system restore. Planning for different recovery types shortens the path back to normal operations:
Recovery type
What it restores
File recovery
Selected files or directories, where supported
Database recovery
Supported database backup sets
Server recovery
Supported server workloads from available backups
VM recovery
Eligible virtual machines and workload data
Point-in-time recovery
An available historical restore point, where supported
Custom recovery
Workflows for complex application environments
Separating backups from production
A backup stored on the same system as the data it protects can be lost in the same incident. Keeping backup data separate from primary production storage, and maintaining a secondary offsite copy, protects against hardware failure, accidental deletion and site-level events.
A widely used guideline is the 3-2-1 approach: three copies of data, on two different types of storage, with one copy offsite. Dedicated backup storage provides the capacity to support it.
Preparing a backup and recovery proposal
The following information helps our team recommend the right architecture:
Systems to protect: servers, VMs, databases or files
Backup creates recoverable copies of data, while recovery restores that data when the production copy becomes unavailable or unusable.
Can you back up dedicated servers?
Yes. Backup solutions can be designed for eligible dedicated server environments according to platform and technical requirements.
Can virtual machines be backed up?
Yes. Supported virtual environments can be included in a backup architecture according to platform capabilities.
How frequently should backups run?
Backup frequency depends on how frequently data changes and how much recent data the organisation can tolerate losing.
What is backup retention?
Retention defines how long backup copies or restore points are preserved before they are rotated or removed.
What are RPO and RTO?
RPO represents acceptable data loss measured in time, while RTO represents the target time for restoring a system after an incident.
Is backup the same as disaster recovery?
No. Backup primarily protects data, while disaster recovery covers the broader process of restoring applications, infrastructure and business services.
Can HostGraber design a custom backup solution?
Yes. Backup architecture can be designed around data size, retention, frequency, storage, recovery and workload requirements.
Are backups tested?
Backup jobs and available restore points are validated during deployment, and periodic recovery testing can be included in ongoing operations.
How do I get started with backup and recovery?
Complete the backup and recovery proposal form with your backup requirement and data size. Our team will review your environment and recommend a backup architecture.
Enterprise backup and recovery
Protect Your Data. Recover With Confidence.
Tell us what you need to protect. Our team will recommend a backup and recovery architecture around your retention and recovery objectives.