Backup & Disaster Recovery in Cypress
A backup you have never restored is a rumor. We build backups that ransomware cannot delete, test the restores on a schedule, and write down how much data and how much time your business can actually afford to lose. Then we prove those numbers hold.
The Problem
Ask a Cypress business owner about backups and the answer is usually a product name and a hopeful tone. The details are where it falls apart: the backup copies the file server but not the practice management database, it runs to a drive sitting three feet from the server it protects, the cloud copy uses the same administrator password as everything else, and the last verified restore was during the original install. Ransomware crews now hunt for the backup console first and delete what they find, so a copy an attacker can reach is not a copy. Add a Harris County summer where power at a strip center off 290 can be out for days, and a single on-site copy stops being a backup strategy and starts being a coin flip.
The Solution
We design to recovery targets first, not to a product. That means agreeing with you how many hours of work the business can lose and how long it can be down before real money and real patients or customers walk, then building backups that meet those numbers. Copies are immutable, held outside the reach of the credentials that run your day to day environment, and separated so one bad night cannot take both. Restores are tested on a schedule and the results are documented, which is exactly what an insurer or an enterprise customer wants to see. Design and monitoring are remote, and because Cypress is inside our Houston on-site service area we can be at your building for the local appliance work and for a live recovery when the situation calls for hands on equipment. Pricing is scoped on a discovery call as a fixed monthly retainer.
Core Responsibilities
Protected Copies
Proven Recovery
Evidence And Oversight
Engagement Process
Find Everything That Matters
We identify the data that would actually stop the business: the clinical or job costing database, the shared drive, mail, the estimating files, and the vendor hosted systems people forget are their responsibility to back up.
Set The Targets
Leadership decides, with our guidance, how much data loss and how much downtime each system can tolerate. Those numbers become the design constraint, and they are written into the plan rather than implied.
Build And Isolate
We deploy the backup platform, put the immutable copies out of reach of everyday administrative accounts, and separate the credentials so compromise of your network does not automatically mean compromise of your recovery.
Test And Keep Testing
Restores are exercised on a schedule, results are recorded, and gaps go on a remediation list. When something in the environment changes, the protection plan changes with it rather than a year later.
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Common Questions
Our software vendor hosts our system. Are we already covered?
Read the agreement carefully, because many vendor contracts protect the platform rather than your individual data, and some limit how far back a restore can reach. We review the vendor terms and, where it is permitted, add an independent copy you control. Assuming coverage is the most common gap we find in Cypress practices.
How fast could we be running again after ransomware?
That depends on the recovery targets you set and what you are willing to invest to meet them, which is why we settle those numbers before designing anything. We will tell you honestly what your current setup can achieve and what a faster target would require. We do not promise a recovery time we have not tested.
Do we still need backups if everything is in Microsoft 365?
Yes. Microsoft protects its service, not your content against deletion, a compromised mailbox, or a departing employee cleaning out a shared site. Retention policies help but they are not a restore point. We back up mail, files, and sites separately from the tenant itself.
What about hurricanes and long power outages?
That is a Cypress specific design problem, not a theoretical one. Off-site copies must live outside the same weather event, and the recovery runbook has to assume the office is dark and staff are scattered. We plan for restoring to cloud infrastructure so people can work from wherever they evacuated to.
Can you take over backups our current IT provider set up?
Yes. We audit what is actually protected, what the retention really is, and whether a restore has ever succeeded, then either take over the existing platform or replace it. The audit findings are yours regardless of what you decide afterward.
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Cypress sits in the part of Harris County where flooding, wind, and long power outages are ordinary planning assumptions rather than rare events. A dental or medical practice near Barker Cypress that loses its imaging and scheduling database does not simply lose files, it loses the ability to see patients and to bill for the ones it already saw. A homebuilder or trade contractor working the Bridgeland and Towne Lake growth areas keeps estimates, submittals, warranty records, and job photos that a general contractor can demand years after closeout. Retail and restaurant operators near the Houston Premium Outlets area depend on point of sale and inventory data that lives partly in a back office machine nobody has ever restored. Professional services firms along the US-290 corridor hold client records under obligations that survive the outage, so a lost file is a liability and not just an inconvenience. What makes the local risk sharper is how many of these companies are owner operated with a single office. There is no second building to fail over to and no internal IT person to run a recovery at 3 a.m. The protection has to work without heroics, and the only way to know it does is to have restored it before the storm arrives.
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