Backup and recovery in Southampton —
immutable, regulator-grade, restore-tested.
Servnet designs and runs backup and recovery for Southampton businesses where data loss is not a recoverable event — Port of Southampton under NIS Regulations, Carnival UK under operational resilience + GDPR, BAE Systems Southampton under defence flow-down, NHS HIOW under DSP Toolkit. Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik or Veritas — restore-tested quarterly.
Why Southampton backup needs to clear a higher bar
Southampton concentrates port + cruise + defence + NHS — sectors where downtime translates directly to operational, regulatory, and commercial consequences.
NIS Regulations for Port of Southampton
For DP World Southampton + ABP Southampton as Operators of Essential Services, backup architecture must support NIS-Regulations incident reporting + recovery time objectives.
Operational resilience for Carnival UK
For Carnival UK + cruise operations, backup supports 24×7 operational resilience + GDPR for guest data.
MOD flow-down for BAE Systems Southampton supply
For BAE Systems Southampton + maritime defence supplier-chain, prime-contractor flow-down requires specific retention + immutability.
NHS DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4
For NHS HIOW ICB-affiliated organisations, DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4 requires demonstrable backup and recovery.
What Servnet backup delivers in Southampton
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 Southampton customers.
Commvault Cloud + HyperScale X
For larger Southampton enterprise customers.
M365 / Workspace SaaS backup
Independent backup of M365 / Workspace tenants.
Air-gapped vault in second Southampton DC
Off-fabric, network-isolated vault at a second DC.
Quarterly restore exercises
For regulated customers — quarterly tested restores.
Southampton backup + recovery customers
- ▸Port of Southampton + maritimeDP World Southampton + ABP Southampton — port operational data backup, NIS-Regulations-aligned recovery.
- ▸Carnival UK + cruiseCarnival UK — cruise operational data, GDPR-aligned guest data retention.
- ▸BAE Systems SouthamptonBAE Systems + maritime defence — product / engineering / quality data, defence flow-down retention.
- ▸NHS HIOW trustsUHS, SHFT, IOW NHS Trust — clinical-system backup, DSP-Toolkit-aligned retention.
- ▸University of Southampton + SolentUniversity of Southampton, Solent — research-data backup, funder-aligned retention.
- ▸SCC + Hampshire authoritiesSCC + Hampshire CC + 11 districts — backup of Crown Hosting / Azure workloads.
How a Southampton backup engagement runs
Assessment + design — weeks 1–2
Existing-backup audit, RPO / RTO targets, ransomware scenario stress-test.
Hardware + software deployment
Backup repository racked in agreed Southampton 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.
Southampton backup + recovery — common questions
What does "immutable" mean for our Southampton backup data?
Data even an admin with full credentials cannot delete or modify before retention expires.
How do you protect a Microsoft 365 tenant?
Microsoft retains, doesn't back up. We deploy third-party M365 backup tools.
Can you build us an air-gapped vault in a second Southampton DC?
Yes — primary in one DC (Pulsant SOU) and air-gapped vault in a second (Vorboss or Synergy SOU).
Do you do quarterly restore testing for NHS HIOW?
Yes — for NHS HIOW ICB-affiliated organisations we schedule quarterly tested restores aligned to DSP Toolkit 9.4.
How quickly can you recover a ransomware-encrypted Southampton estate?
For 150-VM estate with immutable repositories: critical-service restore within 4–8 hours, full estate 24–72 hours.
How do you price backup for a 100-VM Southampton firm?
Three components — software licence, backup target hardware (£25–55k), implementation services (£15–30k).
Other services we deliver in Southampton
Need Southampton backup that survives a regulator review?
Send the workloads and the RPO / RTO you need.