Managed Cloud Backup for UK Businesses

Acronis puts backup and cyber security in one platform, so your data is protected and defended by the same tool. For a UK business that means immutable backups, fast recovery of files, servers and systems whether they're physical, virtual or cloud, and GDPR-compliant handling as standard. Get hit by ransomware and you roll back to a clean copy, which turns a serious incident into an inconvenient afternoon.

There's a common myth that data in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace is backed up for you. It isn't. Microsoft and Google keep the service running; recovering data you deleted, corrupted or lost in an attack is your responsibility. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud fills that gap, covering email, files, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive with unlimited retention, so you can restore exactly what you need from any point in time. If you're on Microsoft 365, it pairs with our Microsoft 365 support.

Nakivo is built for virtual servers on VMware, Hyper-V or Nutanix. It backs up and replicates your machines as immutable copies attackers can't tamper with, and uses deduplication, compression and encryption so the jobs run quickly without eating your storage or bandwidth. It'll also push a copy out to cloud storage such as AWS for an offsite version. Fast protection, faster recovery, for infrastructure that can't sit idle.

Backup is only worth anything on the day it works, so most of what matters is operational rather than technical. Ask who watches the jobs, how often recovery gets tested rather than just scheduled, whether data is encrypted, and what your ransomware recovery actually looks like on the day: who does what, and in what order. Then ask who answers the phone, and where they sit. We're UK-based and we run the whole thing, from setup and monitoring through to the restore itself.

Yes, done properly it's one of the safer places your data can be. We encrypt backups in transit and at rest and store them as immutable copies, which means they can't be altered or deleted, including by ransomware that has already got into your live systems. For UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 that helps twice over: personal data is held securely, and you can demonstrate you're able to restore it, which is a requirement people routinely forget until an audit.

Continuity is about how fast you can trade again. Managed backup gives you automated protection and a route back, so a deleted file, a dead drive, a flood or a ransomware attack doesn't stop the business. Disaster recovery is the plan wrapped around that: who does what, in which order, and roughly how long you'll be down. Because the jobs are monitored and tested, you know they restore rather than assuming it. For the prevention end it works alongside our ransomware and disaster recovery services.

If you want to write that plan down, our cloud disaster recovery plan for UK small businesses walks through it in five decisions.

The 3-2-1 rule is the standard way to think about it, and it's simple enough to check yourself. You keep:

• 3 copies of your data: the live version plus two backups, so one failure never leaves you exposed.
• 2 types of media: at least two different kinds of storage, so one technology failing doesn't take everything with it.
• 1 copy offsite: somewhere away from your main location, so a fire, flood, theft or a ransomware attack that spreads across your network can't reach every copy at once.

Ours is built to 3-2-1 by default, including the encrypted offsite copy, so you get it without having to design or maintain it.