Backup & disaster recovery in Invercargill
A backup is only worth something on the day you need it back. We set up copies of your Microsoft 365, servers and shared files, keep at least one where ransomware can't touch it, check every job and prove it works with regular test restores.
Invercargill is supported remotely. Our technicians are based in Auckland and Hamilton, so onsite work here is planned project work, booked and quoted in advance.
Backup & disaster recovery for Invercargill businesses
Invercargill is Southland's main city, servicing a large farming region with meat and dairy processing, agricultural services, engineering, heavy industry, education and health, plus the professional firms that support them. Much of the city's professional work is done by small local teams that serve clients across the wider region.
Rural service firms here support clients spread across Southland's farms, many on rural connections, and engineering and processing businesses run workshops and plant alongside office systems. Remote support and cloud systems help firms that find it hard to hire local IT staff.
Every job reports to us. Failed or skipped backups are followed up the next working day, not discovered at the worst possible moment. Each quarter we restore something real, such as a folder, a mailbox or a whole server, time how long it takes and write the result into your recovery plan, so you know what a bad day would actually look like. If a test turns up a problem, such as a missing folder or a restore that takes far too long, we fix the setup and test it again.
We support Invercargill businesses remotely for help desk, security, Microsoft 365 and backups. Onsite visits are for planned projects by arrangement and quoted in writing. Equipment for workshops or new offices can be specified remotely and fitted by a local installer.
What's included
Microsoft 365 backup
Exchange mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams files copied outside Microsoft's own retention, with point-in-time restores of single items or whole accounts.
Recovery help
When something is lost or encrypted we do the restore, check the data is complete and help you work out how it happened.
Written recovery plan
Who to contact, what gets restored first, where the copies live and how long each step takes, kept short enough to use in a crisis.
Laptop file protection
Desktop and Documents folders redirected to OneDrive and covered by the 365 backup, so a stolen laptop costs a device, not a year of work.
Server and NAS backup
Image-level backups of onsite servers and file shares, so a failed machine can be rebuilt on new hardware or started in the cloud while it is replaced.
Daily checks
Every backup job is checked each working day. Failures, warnings and jobs that silently stopped are investigated and fixed, with the cause noted.
Is it right for your Invercargill office?
Talk to us about backup if any of these sound familiar:
- Your backup is a USB drive someone is meant to swap each week
- You use Microsoft 365 and have never set up a separate backup for it
- Your accounting or practice software sits on one server in a cupboard
- You can't say when a restore was last tested
- Your insurer asks whether backups are offline or immutable
How getting started works
- Free IT health check. We look at your devices, accounts, backups and network and tell you what we find, in plain English.
- Clear proposal. A written monthly price per user and a list of any fixes, with nothing hidden.
- Handover. We collect admin access and documentation from your current provider and keep your team working.
- Day-one fixes. Security gaps, failed backups and urgent risks are dealt with first.
Backup & disaster recovery in Invercargill: questions
We can't find local IT staff. Can remote managed IT work for us?
Yes. Most of the work, from updates and security to helping staff, is done remotely. Physical work is handled with planned visits or a local installer we coordinate.
Do you support farm service businesses?
Yes. We manage laptops and phones for staff working across farms, secure client records and set up file sharing that copes with slow rural connections.
Can you check our current backups before we commit?
Yes. A backup check is billed at our hourly rate and gives you a written list of what is protected, what isn't and what we would change.
What is the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
Backup is the copy of your data. Disaster recovery is the plan and tooling to get the business working again after a fire, flood, theft or ransomware attack, including where people work and in what order systems come back.
Where is our data stored?
Backup copies are kept in data centres we name in your recovery plan, with Australian or New Zealand locations available. We tell you where the copies are before anything is set up.
Doesn't Microsoft back up our 365 data?
Microsoft keeps the service running and holds deleted items for a short period. It does not keep long-term, independent copies you control. A separate 365 backup covers accidental deletion, departed staff, account takeover and retention gaps.
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