Business Continuity
Backup and disaster recovery in Baton Rouge. Stay open when disaster hits.
We plan for each disaster before it comes, write the plan down and put in systems that give your data and staff somewhere to go.
Owner-operated in Baton Rouge since 2003
See the scenarios we plan for
- What you getWritten disaster recovery and continuity procedures, built with you
- Your dataHourly server backups, copied off-site daily, that nobody can change
- ExperienceIn business through Gulf storms since 2003
You have a backup
Owners find these gaps after the disaster hits.
You may believe your backup covers everything.
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Coverage nobody explained
Your IT bill lists backup as included, and you don’t know what it covers.
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Nothing to put it back on
A fire or a hurricane can ruin the server you backed up from.
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Staff who can’t work
A storm in the Gulf knocks out your power, and your staff can’t work. You keep paying them.
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Some never reopen
After a disaster, some organizations close the damaged location and move everything to one of their other sites. Others stop operating.
We plan for that day with you now, while the building stands and the power is on.
The scenarios we plan for
Business continuity: we plan around what each disaster takes.
Fire: the water does the damage
Servers take the worst damage when the fire department puts out the fire and water reaches the electronics.
Hurricane: the roof goes
The wind leaves the walls standing and takes the roof, and the rain soaks everything inside.
A hurricane IT plan
Flood: a copy inside drowns too
A backup kept in the same building goes under with everything else in it.
Ransomware: we rebuild on your hardware
With yesterday’s backup intact, we rebuild your systems on the computers and servers you have.
Our cybersecurity service
Power out: trees take the internet too
Trees fall across the lines, and if your internet runs on the poles, you lose it along with the power.
Internet down: one line stops the office
If the line drops, your staff are stuck. We plan a second internet line that takes over without anyone noticing.
Our office has backup systems to anything critical, including internet, power and HVAC.
How backup works
Your data survives the building.
Every Managed IT client gets backup, and we include it when you buy business continuity on its own. See what managed IT covers.
- Your server
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Every hour
We install a backup unit in your server’s rack and back up each server every hour.
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Off-site, every day
A copy leaves once a day, out of reach of a fire or a flood.
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Nobody can change it
Once we take a backup, ransomware can’t encrypt it and a staff member can’t overwrite it.
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Checked
We check each server backup with a screenshot the backup unit takes.
We can also back up your cloud email and files, with a system built for cloud data.
How we plan
We sit down with you and play the pessimist.
We start with your backup
We look at your backup and ask where each copy lives and how often one leaves the building.
We throw scenarios at you
We pick a day with no internet or no electricity and ask what we’re doing in that situation.
We protect what earns money first
We find the part of your business that earns the money and protect it first.
We write the plan down
You make the decisions in a calm week and have them in writing, ready for a bad one.
We document your backup and recovery for HIPAA and other requirements.
The Katrina lesson
We plan where your data goes before the storm.
After Hurricane Katrina, a New Orleans business brought us servers that had sat underwater for a week. We got their data back through a recovery partner. Their office was gone, and the data had nowhere to go. That case shapes every plan we build.
Questions owners ask about backup and disaster recovery
Will you push us to buy hardware?
No. If your plan calls for equipment, we call the vendors, meet with them and bring you the quotes. We don’t oversell, and you decide.
Can you promise we never go down?
No. Nobody can promise that. We make sure that if something goes wrong, you know what happens next and have it in writing.
Tech Tips
Backup and disaster recovery guides.
Find out what happens the day after.
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15 minutes
We’ll ask where your backup lives and what your plan is if the building, power or internet goes.
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If you don’t have an answer yet, we’ll build one with you.
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If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.
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