Backup & disaster recovery · Northern Virginia & the DMV
Most businesses have "backups" until the day they need them. We protect Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, servers, and VMs with offsite and immutable copies—and prove they restore with real drills—for teams across Arlington, Fairfax, DC, and Maryland.
Recent work
High-stakes engagements for teams that can't afford to lose data—or to find out their backups never worked.
We inventory what's actually being backed up, find the gaps (M365, that one server, the NAS nobody owns), and run a live restore so you see real recovery times—then set up quarterly drills.
A documented playbook for the worst day: isolate, restore from immutable copies attackers can't encrypt, verify clean, and bring systems back in the right order—so a bad click isn't a closed business.
Aging server? We migrate workloads to the cloud or a modern host, set up replication and retention, and add M365 or Google mailbox backup—so the move also fixes your recovery story.
What we integrate
The platforms and layers we protect for DMV small businesses—so every critical system has a tested, recoverable copy.
A backup you've never restored is a hope, not a plan. We back up the things most people miss—Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace mailboxes, servers, and VMs—keep offsite and immutable copies ransomware can't touch, and run restore drills so you know exactly how fast you'd be back. One local Northern Virginia team owns the backups, the recovery plan, and the drill.
Microsoft 365
Microsoft keeps the service running—not your data forever. We back up Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams so a deleted mailbox or overwritten file is a quick restore, not a loss.
Google Workspace
Independent backup for Gmail, Drive, and Shared Drives—so accidental deletion, a departing employee, or a compromised account never takes your records with it.
Servers
Image-based backups of physical servers and VMs (Hyper-V, VMware) for fast bare-metal or virtual restore—so a dead server is hours of recovery, not days of rebuilding.
Replication
We follow the 3-2-1 rule—multiple copies, multiple media, one offsite—replicating to the cloud so a fire, flood, or theft at the office never wipes out your only copy.
Ransomware-proof
Write-once, immutable copies and offline retention that ransomware can't encrypt or delete—the difference between paying a ransom and clicking restore.
Runbooks
A plain-language runbook for each system—what to restore, in what order, and how fast (RTO/RPO)—plus quarterly drills so recovery is rehearsed, not improvised.
Service areas
We design, run, and test backup and disaster recovery—Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace backup, server and VM protection, offsite and immutable copies, and recovery runbooks—for small businesses throughout the greater DMV. Based in Herndon, Virginia, we serve the greater DMV—Northern Virginia (including Loudoun, Fairfax, and all of NoVA), Washington DC, and Maryland (including Montgomery County and surrounding suburbs, Prince George’s County, and up to Baltimore), plus Virginia south to Fredericksburg. Remote-first IT support everywhere we cover; local engineers for onsite surveys, installs, and projects.
How it works
We map every system and data source, check what's really being backed up, and find the gaps—then set recovery targets (RTO/RPO) with you.
We back up M365, Google Workspace, servers, and VMs with the right retention—covering the data Microsoft and Google don't keep for you.
Copies go offsite and immutable—3-2-1 with a cloud and a ransomware-proof copy—so no single event can wipe out your only backup.
We run real restores on a schedule, document the runbook, and report recovery times—so when something fails, recovery is rehearsed.
Questions
No—and this is the most common and most dangerous assumption. Microsoft and Google keep the service running and offer short, limited recycle-bin style retention, but they explicitly recommend a third-party backup. If a mailbox is deleted, a file is overwritten, or an account is compromised, native retention often can't get it back. We add independent backup for Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Gmail, and Drive.
We test them. A backup you've never restored is a hope, not a plan—so we run live restore drills (quarterly for most clients), measure real recovery times, and document them. If a restore ever fails the drill, we fix it then, not during a real outage across Northern Virginia and the DMV.
Yes. We keep immutable and offline copies that ransomware can't encrypt or delete, and we maintain a documented recovery playbook: isolate, restore clean data, verify, and bring systems back in the right order. The goal is to make paying a ransom unnecessary.
Three copies of your data, on two types of media, with one kept offsite. We follow it—typically a local copy for fast restores plus a cloud copy and an immutable/offline copy for disaster recovery—so no single event takes out every copy at once.
Both. We do image-based backups of physical servers and VMs for fast restore, and when a server is aging we can migrate the workload to the cloud or a modern host and build backup and replication into the move.
They overlap. Backup and DR is your last line of defense when prevention fails, so it pairs naturally with our cybersecurity and managed IT—but many clients start here with a focused backup audit and recovery plan, then expand.
Next step
Share a few details about your space and what you're trying to accomplish—we'll follow up to schedule a walkthrough or discovery call.