Automated Backups · Disaster Recovery · Verified Restores
Automated backups, tested recovery, RTO/RPO planning, and offsite cloud storage. Most businesses discover their backup doesn't work when they need it — we test yours.
Why Backup & Disaster Recovery through us
The challenges we solve
If any of these sound familiar, your environment has gaps worth addressing, and Sentire can help you close them.
Most businesses learn their backups don't actually work in the middle of a real incident, when restoring quickly is the only thing that matters.
Backup destinations connected to the same network are encrypted alongside live data. Off-site and immutable copies are the only real protection.
Every business assumes recovery is achievable. Most have never measured how long it actually takes against the RTO their business can survive.
Microsoft protects infrastructure availability, not your data. Email, SharePoint, and Teams content can be permanently lost without a third-party backup.
Backup
Automated daily backups of your servers and Microsoft 365 data, stored on-site for fast local restores and replicated to the cloud so a site-level event cannot destroy both your systems and your copies at the same time.
On-premise server backup using Acronis or Veeam. Image-based backup with incremental scheduling and retention policies. Covers Windows Server, Linux, and hypervisors.
Off-site backup to Azure or Acronis Cloud. Ensures data survives a site disaster. Also covers Microsoft 365 which Microsoft does NOT back up natively.
Acronis Cyber Protect backs up Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines at the hypervisor level, agentless, incremental, and replicated off-site for complete VM-level recovery.
Business Continuity
Monthly verified restore tests that prove your data is actually recoverable, not just that backup jobs completed. We run live restores, measure RTO against your target, and report the results so leadership knows continuity is real, not assumed.
Veeam ONE monitors your Veeam backup infrastructure in real time, detecting job failures, forecasting storage growth, and generating compliance reports before problems become incidents.
Monthly restore tests on every backup job. Documented evidence that backups actually work. Most businesses never test until a real disaster. Sentire tests every month.
Disaster Recovery
A documented DR plan with defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), built before an incident, not written in a panic during one. Covers failover procedures, communication runbooks, escalation paths, and cloud failover capability.
Defining RTO and RPO, documenting recovery procedures, designing failover architecture. A written DR plan that actually works when needed.
Acronis Cloud Recovery spins up your servers in the Acronis cloud within minutes of an on-premise failure, keeping your business operational while local infrastructure is restored.
A tested Disaster Recovery Plan document that meets Kenyan regulatory audit requirements, covering recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, tested backup procedures, and documented restore time certifications.
OUR METHODOLOGY
We define your RTO and RPO, how fast you need to recover and how much data loss is acceptable. This drives every design decision that follows.
We deploy Acronis or Veeam, configure backup schedules, and establish off-site and cloud replication. Your first verified restore test happens within 7 days.
Every backup job is monitored. Failures alert us before you notice. Monthly reports confirm your data is protected and restores are passing.
FAQ
We implement daily incremental backups with weekly full backups as the minimum standard. For critical systems — databases, ERP, finance — we configure hourly incremental backups to reduce the recovery point objective. Backup frequency is agreed per workload based on how much data loss is acceptable.
File and folder restores are typically completed in minutes. Full server restores from local backup take one to four hours depending on data volume. Restores from cloud backup take longer for large datasets, which is why we recommend local plus offsite backup for anything with a tight recovery time requirement. We test restores quarterly and document actual restore times for your environment.
Backup is the copy of your data. Disaster recovery is the plan and infrastructure that gets you operational when everything fails — including the server, the building, or the ISP. A full DR solution includes documented recovery procedures, a tested failover environment, defined recovery time objectives, and regular drills. Most businesses need both.
We implement a 3-2-1 backup strategy: three copies of data, on two different media types, with one copy offsite. For most clients this means local backup on a NAS or backup server, plus offsite replication to Azure or Acronis Cloud. Offsite backups are encrypted in transit and at rest.
The offsite copy is specifically designed for this scenario. If local hardware is lost in a fire, theft, or flood, data is recovered from the cloud backup. For servers, recovery to cloud virtual machines is available as a failover option, meaning you can be operational from any location while replacement hardware is procured.
We test restores. A backup that has never been restored is not a backup — it is a liability. We run file-level restore tests monthly and full system restore tests quarterly. Results are documented and included in your monthly IT report. If a restore test fails, we treat it as an incident and resolve it before the next backup cycle.
Our engineers are based in Nairobi and support businesses across Kenya. No lengthy contracts, just reliable, expert IT delivered as a service.
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