Backup and recovery in Birmingham —
immutable, regulator-grade, restore-tested.
Servnet designs and runs backup and recovery for Birmingham businesses where data loss is not a recoverable event — Colmore FCA-authorised firms under Operational Resilience, SRA-regulated West Midlands law practices, NHS BSol ICB-affiliated estates under DSP Toolkit, JLR-supply customers with prime-contractor flow-down obligations, and mid-market firms targeted by ransomware. Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik or Veritas — sized for workload, hardened against ransomware, restore-tested quarterly.
Why Birmingham backup needs to clear a higher bar
Birmingham concentrates firms ransomware actors target most aggressively (regional law, healthcare, automotive supply chain) and the regulatory regimes that punish data loss most directly. Backup design for Birmingham customers starts from "assume the production estate is compromised" and works backwards.
FCA Operational Resilience for Colmore finance
For B2 / B3 FCA-authorised firms, backup is a control under Important Business Service resilience — must demonstrate recoverability within the firm's declared Impact Tolerance.
SRA client-confidentiality + record-keeping
For B2 / B3 law firms, backup feeds directly into SRA client-money + client-confidentiality + record-retention requirements. Retention defensible; deletion auditable.
NHS DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4
For BSol ICB-affiliated organisations, DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4 requires demonstrable backup and recovery aligned to data-sensitivity classification.
JLR flow-down retention requirements
For JLR Tier 1/2 suppliers, prime-contractor flow-down requirements include specific retention + immutability commitments for product / engineering / quality data.
What Servnet backup delivers in Birmingham
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 Birmingham customers — Rubrik Security Cloud + Cloud Vault, r7000 appliance, Anomaly Detection module.
Commvault Cloud + HyperScale X
For larger Birmingham 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 Birmingham DC
Off-fabric, network-isolated vault at a second Birmingham DC — typically Pulsant BHX if primary is Equinix BX1.
Quarterly restore exercises
For regulated customers — quarterly tested restores, validated, documented for FCA / SRA / DSPT audit.
Birmingham backup + recovery customers
- ▸Colmore financeB2 / B3 asset managers and accountants — Veeam or Rubrik against vSphere / Nutanix, immutable repositories, Operational Resilience-aligned restore.
- ▸B2 / B3 law firmsBirmingham legal practices — practice-management database backup, client-file retention, M365 mailbox + SharePoint protection.
- ▸NHS BSol trustsBSol-affiliated trusts — clinical-system backup, DSP-Toolkit-aligned retention, HSCN-attached backup paths, isolated recovery infrastructure.
- ▸JLR Tier 1/2 supplySolihull / Coventry / Wolverhampton suppliers — product / engineering / quality data backup, JLR flow-down retention compliance, ransomware-isolated recovery.
- ▸BCC + WMCA + 6 authoritiesBCC + WMCA + 6 authorities — backup of Crown Hosting / Azure Government workloads, NCSC-aligned retention, statutory record retention.
- ▸Multi-site retail + hospitalityBirmingham-HQ retail with Midlands branches — central backup of branch POS, M365 / Workspace protection, central restore capability.
How a Birmingham backup engagement runs
Assessment + design — weeks 1–2
Existing-backup audit, RPO / RTO targets per workload, ransomware scenario stress-test, regulator-mapping. Output: sized design and 12-month implementation plan.
Hardware + software deployment
Backup repository racked in agreed Birmingham DC, software deployed, replication configured, immutability + air-gap configured, monitoring integrated.
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. Yearly DR table-top for regulated customers.
Birmingham backup + recovery — common questions
What does "immutable" actually mean for our Birmingham 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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham DC?
Yes — typical design lands primary in one DC (e.g. Equinix BX1) and air-gapped vault in a second (Pulsant BHX or Telehouse Brm) with network isolation, immutable storage, credentials separated from production.
Do you do quarterly restore testing for a regulated Birmingham customer?
Yes — for FCA, SRA, DSPT customers we schedule quarterly tested restores: pick a workload, restore to isolated infrastructure, validate integrity, time-box, document, file evidence in the customer's audit pack.
How quickly can you recover a ransomware-encrypted Birmingham estate?
For a typical 150-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 Birmingham firm?
Three components — software licence, backup target hardware (typically £25–55k), implementation services (£15–30k). Annual support and quarterly restore testing on top. Model 3-year TCO on the first proposal.
Other services we deliver in Birmingham
Need Birmingham 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 across 2–3 platforms.