Offsite Backup Services

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At AP4T, we understand the importance of backups, yet recognize they are often among the most neglected responsibilities in many businesses. Even when managed, backups can fail without notice—whether it's due to a scheduled backup stopping or a key component not being backed up properly.

Our team can relieve you and your staff of the backup burden, customizing solutions to your needs and ensuring they function correctly. Too often, businesses discover their backups are ineffective only after a ransomware attack, finding their data unrecoverable from what they believed were functioning backups.

Offsite backups are crucial to protect against disasters like fire or flood, which can destroy both IT equipment and data if backups are kept onsite. Relying solely on onsite cartridges addresses only part of what backups should provide.

However, offsite backups can be daunting. Ensuring they work and knowing where your data ends up are vital concerns.

AP4T offers proprietary offsite backup services, ensuring your data remains within the province. You won't need to worry about your backups being stored in distant data centers in India or China. Many business owners are unaware of where their data is stored or how many places it is replicated, a significant concern in light of current privacy laws.

Our backup service encrypts your data at its source before it is transferred to the remote offsite location, ensuring security at every stage. Even if someone accessed the data, decryption would require years of processing on a supercomputer. Unlike many services that only encrypt data upon arrival at the remote location, our service encrypts data on your computer or server before backup. Additionally, our service only decrypts data through onsite agents, ensuring it remains encrypted during restoration. 

Every computer has it's own backup account so if one account is compromised, that exposure is only to the data from that one computer. Not only that, even if a single account is accessed maliciously, the data on the remote backup server remains inaccessible as it's heavily encrypted. 

Your data can also be "locked" to prevent accidental or malicious deletion or modification on the backup server. In the unlikely case that your computer that is being backed up is "hacked" and the intruder gains access to your backups through the backup agent, your backups can be configured with an "object lock" to prevent them from being deleted.

This is often the process that someone who gains access to a system and encrypts your local data takes. They also look for and destroy any backups. Object locking prevents this even if they can access your backup agent which can also be secured with another unique password to prevent that as well.

In this way, your data is secured through many levels so it can be recovered without anyone being able to delete or tamper with it. This is a necessity in the current era of ransomware attacks. Having good backups is just the first step... making sure they are there when you need them is very key as well.

We understand that the biggest issue with offsite backups is cost. Many offsite services impose upfront setup fees and then monthly management and agent fees, often equaling or exceeding the data storage cost for many clients.

At AP4T, we simplify costs for our clients with no upfront setup fees and no additional ongoing charges. You pay only a per GB charge for your data. Our service offers a flat-rate, no-contract-required solution, with negotiable contracts and better fees for larger data sets to help reduce costs. A robust backup service is essential, but it must also be affordable.

Our standard monitoring ensures you don’t have to worry about your backups. For extra peace of mind, pair our backup service with our Server Monitoring service, customizing a solution that provides detailed reporting and further reassurance about this crucial aspect of your IT infrastructure.

At AP4T, we provide a reliable, secure, and cost-effective backup service, tailored to meet your business needs and ensure your data is always protected. Contact us today to learn more about our comprehensive backup solutions and how we can help safeguard your business data.