Why Sheffield backup needs to clear a higher bar
Sheffield concentrates firms ransomware actors target — NHS SY healthcare, Irwin Mitchell legal, AMRC supply chain, Sheffield steel + engineering. Backup design starts from "assume the production estate is compromised".
NHS DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4 for NHS SY trusts
For NHS SY ICB-affiliated organisations, DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4 requires demonstrable backup and recovery.
SRA Standards for Irwin Mitchell + Sheffield legal
For Irwin Mitchell HQ + Sheffield legal, backup feeds into SRA client-money + client-confidentiality + record-retention requirements.
Aerospace flow-down for AMRC supply
For AMRC + Boeing / Rolls-Royce / McLaren supply customers, prime-contractor flow-down requires specific retention + immutability for engineering / quality data.
Steel + manufacturing production data
For Sheffield steel + engineering customers, backup covers production data with appropriate retention aligned to industry standards.
What Servnet backup delivers in Sheffield
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 Sheffield customers — Rubrik Security Cloud + Cloud Vault.
Commvault Cloud + HyperScale X
For larger Sheffield enterprise customers.
M365 / Workspace SaaS backup
Independent backup of M365 / Workspace tenants. Microsoft retains, doesn't back up.
Air-gapped vault in second Sheffield DC
Off-fabric, network-isolated vault at a second Sheffield DC — typically Stellium if primary is Pulsant SHE.
Quarterly restore exercises
For regulated customers — quarterly tested restores, validated, documented for DSPT / SRA / aerospace flow-down audit.
Sheffield backup + recovery customers
- ▸NHS SY trustsSTH, Barnsley, Doncaster & Bassetlaw, Rotherham — clinical-system backup, DSP-Toolkit-aligned retention.
- ▸Irwin Mitchell HQ + Sheffield legalIrwin Mitchell HQ + Sheffield law — practice-management database backup, client-file retention aligned to SRA.
- ▸AMRC + Boeing / Rolls-Royce supplyAMRC + industrial partners — engineering / quality data backup, aerospace flow-down retention, ransomware-isolated recovery.
- ▸Sheffield steel + engineeringSheffield Forgemasters, Outokumpu — production data backup, multi-site retention, OT-data-aware handling.
- ▸Sheffield + Sheffield Hallam universitiesSheffield + Sheffield Hallam — research-data backup with funder-aligned retention.
- ▸SCC + SYCA + 3 authoritiesSCC + SYCA + 3 SY authorities — backup of Crown Hosting / Azure workloads, statutory record retention.
How a Sheffield backup engagement runs
Assessment + design — weeks 1–2
Existing-backup audit, RPO / RTO targets, ransomware scenario stress-test, regulator-mapping.
Hardware + software deployment
Backup repository racked in agreed Sheffield DC.
First successful restore — week 6
Pick a non-critical workload, restore end-to-end to isolated infrastructure.
Ongoing operations + quarterly testing
Day-to-day job monitoring, restore-on-demand, quarterly tested restores documented for audit.
Sheffield backup + recovery — common questions
What does "immutable" actually mean for our Sheffield backup data?
Data even an admin with full credentials cannot delete or modify before retention expires.
How do you protect a Microsoft 365 tenant — surely Microsoft does it?
Microsoft retains, they don't back up. For any Sheffield tenant of meaningful size we deploy a third-party M365 backup tool.
Can you build us an air-gapped vault in a second Sheffield DC?
Yes — typical design lands primary in one DC (Pulsant SHE) and air-gapped vault in a second (Stellium or iomart Sheffield).
Do you do quarterly restore testing for an NHS SY trust?
Yes — for NHS SY trust-affiliated organisations we schedule quarterly tested restores aligned to DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4.
How quickly can you recover a ransomware-encrypted Sheffield estate?
For a typical 150-VM estate with Veeam or Rubrik and immutable repositories: critical-service restore within 4–8 hours, full estate recovery 24–72 hours.
How do you price backup for a 100-VM Sheffield firm?
Three components — software licence, backup target hardware (typically £25–55k), implementation services (£15–30k).
Other services we deliver in Sheffield
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