Yonkers backup and disaster recovery

The remnants of Hurricane Ida brought flash flooding to Yonkers and much of Westchester in September 2021, and businesses with servers in basements or ground-floor closets learned how quickly water ends a hard drive. A backup sitting on a USB drive next to that server goes down with it. BizTechPro keeps copies offsite and in the cloud, away from your building, so a flood, fire, or burst pipe takes out hardware but not your records. We also design recovery around how long you can afford to be down: a dispatch business may need its scheduling system back within hours, while archived files can wait.

Ransomware is the more common disaster, and it goes after backups first. Our backups are immutable, meaning attackers who get into your network can’t encrypt or delete them. Just as important, we run regular restore tests. A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a plan, and owners often discover an old backup was failing quietly only when they need it. We would rather find that out on a quiet Tuesday than in the middle of an emergency. Every test is documented, which also helps when an insurer asks how your backups are protected.

Automated backups

Servers, computers, and cloud data backed up on a set schedule without anyone needing to remember, with alerts to our team when a backup job fails or is skipped.

Offsite & cloud copies

Copies kept in secure locations away from your office, so a fire, flood, burst pipe, or theft at your building can’t take out your data and your backups together.

Ransomware protection

Immutable backup copies that can’t be encrypted, altered, or deleted for a set period, even by someone holding a stolen administrator password, so clean data is there to restore after an attack.

Microsoft 365 backup

Separate backups of Exchange Online email, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams files, protecting against accidental deletion, departing employees, and ransomware beyond what Microsoft’s default retention covers.

Recovery testing

Regular test restores of files and full systems, so we know your backups actually work and how long a recovery takes before a real emergency puts them to the test.

Continuity planning

A written plan covering who does what, which systems come back first, how staff keep working during an outage, and how quickly each part of your business can be running again.

When should a Yonkers business run a test restore?

Backups should be test-restored on a regular schedule, not just monitored for completion, because a job can report success while the data is unusable. BizTechPro runs recovery tests for Yonkers clients and documents the results, so you know your files, email, and key applications can actually be restored before an emergency forces the question.

Can backups survive a ransomware attack?

Yes, if they are designed for it. BizTechPro uses immutable backups that cannot be encrypted or deleted, even by someone who has stolen an administrator password, and keeps copies offsite. If ransomware hits a Yonkers office, we wipe affected systems and restore clean data rather than leaving you to negotiate with criminals.

What is a disaster recovery plan?

A disaster recovery plan is a written document stating which systems matter most, how quickly each must be restored, who makes decisions, and how staff keep working in the meantime. BizTechPro writes one with each Yonkers backup client, so a flood, outage, or cyberattack triggers steps everyone already knows.