Backup and recovery in Edinburgh —
immutable, regulator-grade, restore-tested.
Servnet designs and runs backup and recovery for Edinburgh businesses where data loss is not a recoverable event — New Town FCA-authorised firms under Operational Resilience, NHS Lothian + NHS Scotland under board-specific information governance, Scottish Government with statutory record-keeping, and Edinburgh tech businesses with SOC 2 obligations. Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik or Veritas — sized for workload, hardened against ransomware, restore-tested quarterly.
Why Edinburgh backup needs to clear a higher bar
Edinburgh concentrates firms ransomware actors target most aggressively (Scottish finance, NHS Scotland, Scottish Gov) and the regulatory regimes that punish data loss most directly. Backup design for Edinburgh customers starts from "assume the production estate is compromised".
FCA Operational Resilience for New Town finance
For Edinburgh FCA-authorised firms, backup is a control under Important Business Service resilience — must demonstrate recoverability within the firm's declared Impact Tolerance.
NHS Scotland Information Security Policy
For NHS Lothian + broader NHS Scotland boards, backup feeds into board-specific information governance — different to English NHS DSPT but with similar principle of demonstrable retention and restore.
Scottish Gov statutory record retention
For Scottish Government departments, ALBs and Scottish councils, backup retention aligns to Scottish-specific statutory record-keeping requirements — Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011 and related.
SOC 2 evidence for Edinburgh tech
For Edinburgh tech businesses with SOC 2 obligations, backup design and evidence directly support the Availability and Processing Integrity criteria.
What Servnet backup delivers in Edinburgh
Veeam Data Platform deployments
Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, Veeam for M365, Veeam Hardened Repository.
Rubrik Security Cloud + r7000
For high-value Edinburgh customers — Rubrik Security Cloud + Cloud Vault, r7000 appliance, Anomaly Detection.
Commvault Cloud + HyperScale X
For larger Edinburgh enterprise customers — Commvault Cloud, HyperScale X, Metallic for SaaS / M365 / Endpoint.
M365 / Workspace SaaS backup
Independent backup of M365 / Workspace tenants. Microsoft retains, doesn't back up.
Air-gapped vault in second Edinburgh DC
Off-fabric, network-isolated vault at a second Edinburgh DC — typically iomart Edinburgh if primary is Pulsant SCO1.
Quarterly restore exercises
For regulated customers — quarterly tested restores, validated, documented for FCA / NHS Scotland / Scottish Gov audit.
Edinburgh backup + recovery customers
- ▸New Town financial servicesNatWest, Standard Life, Aegon, Baillie Gifford — Veeam or Rubrik against vSphere / Nutanix, immutable repositories, Operational Resilience-aligned restore.
- ▸Edinburgh lawBurness Paull, Brodies, CMS — practice-management database backup, client-file retention aligned to Law Society of Scotland, M365 mailbox + SharePoint protection.
- ▸NHS Lothian + NHS Scotland boardsNHS Lothian + 13 boards — clinical-system backup, NHS Scotland-aligned retention, SWAN-attached backup paths.
- ▸Scottish Gov + ALBsScottish Gov, ALBs — backup of Crown Hosting / Azure Government workloads, NCSC-aligned retention, statutory record-keeping compliance.
- ▸Edinburgh techFanDuel, Skyscanner-class businesses — AWS / Azure backup, M365 protection, SOC 2-aligned retention.
- ▸CEC + Lothian councilsCEC + Midlothian + East / West Lothian — statutory record backup, Scottish-specific compliance, council-tenant separation.
How an Edinburgh backup engagement runs
Assessment + design — weeks 1–2
Existing-backup audit, RPO / RTO targets, ransomware scenario stress-test, regulator-mapping. Output: sized design and 12-month implementation plan.
Hardware + software deployment
Backup repository racked in agreed Edinburgh DC, software deployed, replication configured, immutability + air-gap configured.
First successful restore — week 6
Pick a non-critical workload, restore end-to-end to isolated infrastructure, document timing and result, hand evidence to customer.
Ongoing operations + quarterly testing
Day-to-day job monitoring, restore-on-demand, quarterly tested restores documented for audit.
Edinburgh backup + recovery — common questions
What does "immutable" actually mean for our Edinburgh backup data?
Data even an admin with full credentials cannot delete or modify before retention expires. We achieve this via object-lock on AWS S3 / Azure Blob / on-prem object storage; via Veeam Hardened Repository; via Rubrik immutable-by-default; via Commvault Air Gap Protect.
How do you protect a Microsoft 365 tenant — surely Microsoft does it?
Microsoft retains, they don't back up. Default retention is short, restore granularity limited. For any Edinburgh tenant of meaningful size we deploy a third-party M365 backup tool with independent retention, point-in-time restore, tenant isolation from a ransomware-affected production estate.
Can you build us an air-gapped vault in a second Edinburgh DC?
Yes — typical design lands primary in one DC (Pulsant SCO1) and air-gapped vault in a second (iomart Edinburgh or Brightsolid) with network isolation and immutable storage.
Do you do quarterly restore testing for a regulated Edinburgh customer?
Yes — for FCA, NHS Scotland and Scottish Gov customers we schedule quarterly tested restores: pick a workload, restore to isolated infrastructure, validate, time-box, document.
How quickly can you recover a ransomware-encrypted Edinburgh estate?
For a typical 200-VM estate with Veeam or Rubrik and immutable repositories: critical-service restore to isolated infrastructure within 4–8 hours, full estate recovery 24–72 hours.
How do you price backup for a 100-VM Edinburgh firm?
Three components — software licence, backup target hardware (typically £25–55k), implementation services (£15–30k). Annual support and quarterly restore testing on top.
Other services we deliver in Edinburgh
Need Edinburgh backup that survives a regulator review or ransomware incident?
Send the workloads and the RPO / RTO you need. We'll come back with a sized design and a like-for-like comparison.