Blog & resources
Practical guides on backup, compliance and business continuity, written for IT service providers and estate managers.
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BeBackup 7: what changes for an IT service provider
Microsoft 365, versioned shared folder, macOS, Linux, Synology and mobile agents, SmartImage, P2V, cross-client deduplication: what version 7 brings.
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Monitoring fifty clients without spending your days on it
What breaks when a provider goes from five to fifty backed-up clients, and the set-up that carries the load: useful alerts, permissions, reports.
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“The key stays with you”: what that means, and what it implies
Encrypting at rest and encrypting at source do not protect against the same threats. What holding the key changes, including in the event of a breach.
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Restoring a machine that will not boot: the checklist to run before the emergency
Bare metal, P2V, WinPE, logical partitions and 4Kn disks: what you need to have checked before the day a server fails to come back.
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Microsoft 365: what Microsoft backs up, and what it leaves to you
The shared responsibility model in plain terms: what the Microsoft recycle bin and retention cover, and where their reach stops.
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Choosing a backup solution for a client estate: 12 criteria that count
Margin, hosting, block-level delta, deduplication, white label, reversibility: the framework used by an IT provider equipping dozens of clients.
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GDPR and backup: the five points that really cause trouble
Erasure, retention period, processing on behalf of a client, location, encryption: what the GDPR concretely implies for your backups.
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The 3-2-1 backup rule: what it actually protects
The 3-2-1 rule gets quoted everywhere and applied rarely. What it covers, what it does not, and how to hold it across a client estate.
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