Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery in Indore, Proved by Restoring
Hexaloop sets up cloud backup and disaster recovery in Indore for businesses that cannot afford to lose a day of invoices, orders or patient records. We copy your data to a second location, write down how long you can be offline and how much work you can lose, and prove the plan by restoring from it.
- Recovery plan built on how much work you can afford to lose
- Restore tested on a clean server and reported to you
- Dated versions, so a quiet corruption can be rolled back
- 10+ Years Building Software
Backup and Recovery for Indore Businesses That Have Never Tried a Restore
A backup is only worth something on the day you restore from it. Plenty of businesses in Indore copy their Tally data to a pen drive or to the same disk as the original, and find out on the worst day that the copy is a month old, corrupt or sitting in the same room as the fire. Cloud backup keeps a copy somewhere else, and disaster recovery is the plan for getting the business running again from it.
We begin with two questions only you can answer. How much work can you afford to lose: a day, an hour, a few minutes? And how long can the business stand still? Those two answers, not our preferences, set how often data is copied and how much a standby system is worth. A shop that prints bills all day and an office that works on spreadsheets need different plans.
We copy databases, servers and shared files to cloud storage, keep several dated versions so that a quiet corruption can be rolled back, and then do what most plans skip: restore a copy onto a clean server, open it and check that your people can work in it. The result of each test is written down and sent to you.
Who Needs Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery?
Shops, distributors and factories whose billing data is copied to a pen drive or to the same disk it was created on.
Clinics and labs that could not rebuild a day of patient entries or reports from memory if their system failed.
Software companies whose product database is the business, and who have never restored it from a backup.
Offices where staff keep working files in a shared folder that is not copied anywhere else.
Owners who have heard that ransomware can lock a server and want a copy the attacker cannot reach.
Problems Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Solves
The latest backup is a month old because the person who ran it left, and nobody noticed it had stopped.
Backups sit on the same server as the data, so a failed disk or a fire takes both together.
A file was deleted or overwritten last week and cannot be recovered because only the newest copy is kept.
Nobody knows how long a restore would take, so nobody can tell customers when the system will be back.
Ransomware reaches the backup drive because it is always connected to the same network as the infected computer.
What's Included
Recovery targets — a written figure for how much data you can lose and how long you can be offline, agreed for each system
Server and database backups — scheduled copies of whole servers and databases to cloud storage in a second location
File and folder backup — shared drives and desktops copied with dated versions, so an overwritten file can be recovered
Immutable copies — backups that cannot be changed or deleted for a set period, even by an administrator account
Standby environment — for systems that cannot wait, a second copy ready to take over in another zone or region
Restore drills — a scheduled restore onto a clean server, opened and checked by someone who uses the system
Runbook — a short printed document with the exact steps, the contacts and where the credentials are kept
What You Gain
After a failure you restore from a recent copy and lose minutes or hours of work, not weeks.
A deleted or overwritten file can be fetched from the version of last Tuesday.
Copies are kept apart from the network the office uses, so a virus on one computer cannot reach them.
You know in advance how long recovery will take, because we have timed it.
A written plan names who does what, and in which order, so nobody is hunting for a password on the day.
Tools & Technologies We Use
- AWS Backup
- Amazon S3
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- Azure Backup
- Azure Site Recovery
- Veeam
- restic
- pg_dump
- mysqldump
How We Work
Set the loss and downtime you can live with
For each system we ask how much recent work you could redo by hand and how long the business could stop, and we write the answers down as figures.
Find where your data really lives
We trace the databases, shared folders, mail, accounting files and the laptop of the person who keeps the important spreadsheet, and list what is not copied at all.
Choose copies, places and retention
We decide how often each item is copied, how many dated versions are kept, for how long and in which second location, and we set up the schedule.
Restore it onto a clean server
We build a test server from nothing, restore the latest copy onto it and ask someone from your team to open it and do ordinary work.
Write the runbook and book the next drill
The steps, contacts and timings go into a short runbook, and the next restore drill is put in the calendar before we leave.
Why Choose Hexaloop for Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
We restore, we do not just copy
A green tick on a backup screen only says that something was copied. We prove the plan by restoring onto a clean server and showing you the result.
The plan starts from your numbers
How often to copy and how much to spend on standby servers are set by what an hour of downtime costs you, and not by a package we happen to sell.
Off-site does not mean out of reach
Your copies sit in a cloud region away from your office, and the runbook says how to reach our team in Indore when you need help.
Retention you can explain
We settle how long versions are kept together with you and your accountant, because some records must be kept for a period the law sets, and we do not guess it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does cloud backup cost each month for a small business?
Mostly it is storage: the more data and the more dated versions you keep, the more the cloud provider charges. Our fee depends on how many systems we set up and whether you want regular restore drills. We quote the two parts separately once we know how much data you have.
How long does it take to set up a backup and recovery plan?
One office with a server and a shared folder can have its first backups running within a short time. The recovery plan takes longer, because it needs your answers about downtime and a proper restore test. We agree the schedule with you after the first call.
How often should we back up if we bill all day?
Probably more often than once a night. If losing a day of bills would hurt, we copy the database continuously or every few minutes and keep nightly copies as well. How often is decided by how much you could re-enter by hand, which is why we ask you first.
What is the difference between a backup and disaster recovery?
A backup is a copy of data. Disaster recovery is the whole plan to get working again: which system returns first, on what server, who does it and how long it takes. You need the copy for the plan, but the copy alone does not tell you what to do on the day.
Can a cloud backup protect us from ransomware?
It can, if at least one copy cannot be changed or deleted from the infected network. We keep a copy that is locked for a set period and held under separate credentials. No backup stops an attack, but a clean copy means you can restore and not negotiate.
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Managed Cloud Hosting
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Cloud Security
A review and clean-up of cloud accounts, permissions, storage, networks and keys on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, followed by logging and alerts that catch the next mistake.
DevOps and CI/CD
Automated build, test and deployment pipelines, containers and infrastructure as code, so that a release is a repeatable button press and not one person's memory.
Cloud Cost Optimization
A review of your AWS, Azure or Google Cloud bill that ties each charge to an owner, removes idle resources, resizes oversized ones and sets alerts on spending.
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Tell Us What You Could Not Afford to Lose
Bring a list of the systems and files your business depends on, and tell us how long you could manage without them. We will sketch what a backup and a recovery plan would involve and what to test first.