Backup and recovery in Bristol —
immutable, regulator-grade, restore-tested.
Servnet designs and runs backup and recovery for Bristol businesses where data loss is not a recoverable event — Temple Quarter FCA-authorised fintech under Operational Resilience, Filton aerospace under MOD flow-down, NHS BNSSG ICB-affiliated trusts under DSP Toolkit, and Bristol creative under IP-protection obligations. Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik or Veritas — sized for workload, hardened against ransomware, restore-tested quarterly.
Why Bristol backup needs to clear a higher bar
Bristol concentrates firms ransomware actors target aggressively (fintech, healthcare, aerospace supply, IP-rich creative). Backup design for Bristol customers starts from "assume the production estate is compromised".
FCA Operational Resilience for Temple Quarter fintech
For Temple Quarter FCA-authorised firms, backup is a control under Important Business Service resilience.
MOD DEFCON flow-down retention for Filton aerospace
For Airbus / BAE / Rolls-Royce supply customers, prime-contractor flow-down requires specific retention + immutability for product / engineering / quality data.
NHS DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4
For BNSSG ICB-affiliated organisations, DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4 requires demonstrable backup and recovery aligned to data-sensitivity classification.
IP protection for Aardman + creative
For Aardman, Channel 4 Bristol, BBC Bristol customers, backup includes IP-classified data (animation assets, broadcast masters) with appropriate retention and access controls.
What Servnet backup delivers in Bristol
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 Bristol customers — Rubrik Security Cloud + Cloud Vault, r7000 appliance, Anomaly Detection.
Commvault Cloud + HyperScale X
For larger Bristol 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 Bristol DC
Off-fabric, network-isolated vault at a second Bristol DC — typically Pulsant BRS if primary is Telstra Bristol.
Quarterly restore exercises
For regulated customers — quarterly tested restores, validated, documented for FCA / MOD / DSPT audit.
Bristol backup + recovery customers
- ▸Temple Quarter fintechBS1 / BS2 fintech, Hargreaves-class — Veeam or Rubrik against vSphere / Nutanix, immutable repositories, Operational Resilience-aligned restore.
- ▸Filton aerospace + defenceAirbus, BAE, Rolls-Royce supply — product / engineering / quality data backup, MOD flow-down retention, ransomware-isolated recovery.
- ▸NHS BNSSG trustsUHB, NBT, AWP — clinical-system backup, DSP-Toolkit-aligned retention, HSCN-attached backup paths.
- ▸Aardman + Bristol creativeIP-classified backup — animation assets, broadcast masters, post-production data with IP-aware retention and access controls.
- ▸WECA + BCC + 3 authoritiesBCC, WECA, North Somerset, South Glos — backup of Crown Hosting / Azure workloads, NCSC-aligned retention.
- ▸UniversitiesBristol + UWE — research data backup, DPIA-aligned handling, large-dataset retention strategies.
How a Bristol 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 Bristol DC, software deployed, replication configured.
First successful restore — week 6
Pick a non-critical workload, restore end-to-end to isolated infrastructure, document timing and result.
Ongoing operations + quarterly testing
Day-to-day job monitoring, restore-on-demand, quarterly tested restores documented for audit.
Bristol backup + recovery — common questions
What does "immutable" actually mean for our Bristol 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. For any Bristol tenant of meaningful size we deploy a third-party M365 backup tool with independent retention, point-in-time restore, tenant isolation.
Can you build us an air-gapped vault in a second Bristol DC?
Yes — typical design lands primary in one DC (Telstra Bristol) and air-gapped vault in a second (Pulsant BRS or Vorboss) with network isolation and immutable storage.
Do you do quarterly restore testing for a regulated Bristol customer?
Yes — for FCA, MOD-supply, DSPT 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 Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Bristol
Need Bristol 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.