Houston businesses face hurricanes, power outages, hardware failure, and ransomware. Backups are the last line of defense, but only if they run daily, live offsite, and someone proves restores work.
What to Back Up
Cover Microsoft 365 mailboxes and SharePoint, file servers, databases, and critical app configs. SaaS data is not automatically safe because it lives in the cloud; Microsoft provides limited native retention.
Document recovery time goals: how fast you need email back versus accounting versus file shares.
3-2-1 Backup Strategy Simplified
Keep three copies of important data, on two types of storage, with one copy offsite or immutable. That pattern survives fire, theft, and ransomware that deletes local backups.
Automate jobs and alert on failures. Silent backup failures are worse than no backup at all because they create false confidence.
Test Restores Quarterly
Pick random files, mailbox items, or a VM and restore them on a schedule. Hawkeye Core includes backup monitoring and restore tests for Houston managed IT clients so recovery is proven, not guessed.