Cloud Backup
Off-site backup to Azure or Acronis Cloud. Ensures data survives a site disaster. Also covers Microsoft 365 which Microsoft does NOT back up natively.
Key highlights
- Azure and Acronis Cloud backup
- Microsoft 365 email and file backup
- Geo-redundant storage across regions
- Recovery point objective as low as hours
If your backup is at your office, it's not backed up
A backup stored in the same building as your servers is vulnerable to the same risks: fire, flood, theft, power failure, ransomware attacks. if a disaster destroys your office, it destroys both your servers and your backups. cloud backup solves this by storing copies of your data far away, in geographically diverse data centres where a single disaster can't reach.
Cloud backup serves two critical purposes. first, it protects against total loss. if your office burns down, your data is safe in the cloud. second, it provides a recovery point far in the past. if malware infects your systems undetected for weeks, a cloud backup from before the infection allows you to restore clean data.
Microsoft 365 has no native backup
Many businesses assume Microsoft backs up their Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive data. they don't. Microsoft's backup covers their infrastructure. your data is your responsibility. if a user or attacker deletes email or files from Microsoft 365, Microsoft won't recover it for you. Sentire's Microsoft 365 backup ensures you can recover deleted or corrupted data even if Microsoft's infrastructure is fine.
Azure cloud backup
If your infrastructure is running on Microsoft Azure, cloud backups integrate naturally with your existing Azure subscriptions. Azure Backup provides geo-redundant storage across Azure regions and vaults. backups are encrypted at rest and in transit, and you retain complete control over encryption keys. recovery can be at the VM level (restore an entire virtual machine), disk level (restore a specific disk), or file level (recover individual files from a VM backup).
Azure backup is cost-effective especially if you're already using Azure for infrastructure. the storage cost is modest and you benefit from Azure's redundancy and global presence.
Acronis Cloud backup
Acronis Cloud is a backup-as-a-service platform that works with on-premise servers, virtual machines, and physical hardware. it's independent of any cloud platform so if you're not using Azure or prefer a dedicated backup service, Acronis Cloud is a solid choice. Acronis stores backups in distributed data centres and offers the same file-, VM-, and whole-server restore options as Azure.
Microsoft 365 backup: the critical missing piece
Exchange email, SharePoint sites, OneDrive folders, and Microsoft Teams data are all stored in Microsoft 365 but not backed up by Microsoft. these are often a business's most critical data: customer communications, contracts, financial records. Sentire's Microsoft 365 backup service backs up all of these automatically and retains backups for up to a year. if email is deleted, a SharePoint site is corrupted, or OneDrive files are lost, we can recover them from backup without asking Microsoft.
Microsoft 365 backup is included in Sentire's Backup and Disaster Recovery service. it's configured automatically when you engage Sentire for managed Microsoft 365 support.
Encryption and security
Cloud backups are encrypted with AES-256 encryption both at rest (in the cloud data centre) and in transit (as they're being sent). you control the encryption keys. Microsoft and Acronis cannot decrypt your backups without your key. this is important: your backup is confidential data and must be protected accordingly. encryption ensures that even if a backup is accessed improperly, the data inside is unreadable.
Compliance and retention
Many regulations require data to be retained for a set period and protected from modification. cloud backup platforms support immutable storage where backed-up data cannot be deleted or modified for a defined retention period. this is valuable for businesses in regulated industries (finance, healthcare) and for legal holds where data must be preserved for litigation.
Sentire can configure retention policies to match your compliance requirements, whether that's 30 days, 5 years, or 10 years.
Cheap insurance for your most critical data
Cloud backup is inexpensive compared to the value of the data being protected. for a typical business, cloud backup costs a few thousand shillings per month. the cost to recover data after a disaster without backup would be hundreds of thousands or millions. cloud backup is simply smart business practice.
Also in Backup & Disaster Recovery
Server Backup
On-premise server backup using Acronis or Veeam. Image-based backup with incremental scheduling and retention policies. Covers Windows Server, Linux, and hypervisors.
Hyper-V & VMware Backup
Acronis Cyber Protect backs up Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines at the hypervisor level, agentless, incremental, and replicated off-site for complete VM-level recovery.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Defining RTO and RPO, documenting recovery procedures, designing failover architecture. A written DR plan that actually works when needed.
Veeam ONE, Backup Monitoring & Analytics
Veeam ONE monitors your Veeam backup infrastructure in real time, detecting job failures, forecasting storage growth, and generating compliance reports before problems become incidents.
Restore Testing and Verification
Monthly restore tests on every backup job. Documented evidence that backups actually work. Most businesses never test until a real disaster. Sentire tests every month.
Get it done right
Let Sentire handle your Cloud Backup.
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