NAS Backup Setup: Automatic Backups for PCs and Servers

A NAS does not back anything up until someone sets it up. We configure scheduled backups from your PCs, servers and cloud accounts to the NAS, add a second copy somewhere else, and prove it works by restoring a file with you.

What we back up

• Windows and Mac computers, on a schedule, without the user doing anything
• File servers and application servers
• Virtual machines on VMware and Hyper-V
• Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace mailboxes and drives, on Synology and QNAP
• The NAS itself, to a second NAS or to cloud storage

The 3-2-1 rule

Every plan we design keeps three copies of your data, on two different devices, with one copy off-site. The working copy is on your computers or the NAS, the second is the backup on the NAS, and the third is at another location or in cloud storage.

The off-site copy is what protects you from fire, theft and a ransomware attack that reaches everything on the office network.

Versions and retention

A backup that only keeps the latest copy will faithfully back up a corrupted or encrypted file. We set a retention policy that keeps daily, weekly and monthly versions, so you can go back to a point before the problem started.

A restore you have seen work

Before we call the job finished, we restore a file and a folder with you watching. We also leave a one-page guide to restoring, so the knowledge is not only in one person's head.

Common questions