A green backup dashboard is reassuring. It is not the same as proof that you can recover. Here is the difference.
We have walked into incidents where every backup job was green for months and not a single one could be restored. The lesson: backup is a service, not a switch. Treat it like one.
Most backup software reports per-job success. Real monitoring covers protected vs unprotected workloads, retention vs policy, storage consumption trends and abnormal change rates that can hint at ransomware.
A restore test answers three questions:
Anything else is theatre. We restore representative workloads on a quarterly cycle, with evidence.
Different workloads have different answers. Finance ERP isn't a marketing site; both should be designed for what they actually need.
Microsoft is responsible for keeping the service running. You are responsible for the data inside it. We back Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams up to independent storage with long retention and immutability.
Image-level backups with Veeam or Commvault, with copies to immutable cloud storage. On-prem backup infrastructure has its own admin identity, separated from the production AD.
WORM and object-lock targets mean an attacker with domain admin cannot delete your backups. If your backup target shares identity with production, assume it is compromised in a ransomware event.
Our backup & disaster recovery practice covers Microsoft 365, servers and cloud workloads with documented RTO/RPO and scheduled restore testing. Combined with our cybersecurity services you have prevention, detection and recovery in one place.
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