Backup & Disaster Recovery
Backup and Disaster Recovery in New Jersey
When something fails, your data is still there. Ransomware, a failed drive, a deleted file, or a fire. Offsite backups you can recover from, actually configured and monitored, not left on default settings.
Nexus Ideal Solutions
Something goes wrong
Ransomware, a failed drive, or a deleted file
Everyday mishaps
Restore from local backup
A deleted file or folder back in minutes
Rebuild from offsite
Failed drive or server
Ransomware attack
Recover from immutable
Ransomware can't reach it
Back up and running
Your data recovered
What we protect, and how
How backups are monitored
What we back up
Why backups fail when you need them
Almost every business that has permanently lost data had backups. That is the part worth sitting with. Something was configured, somebody watched it work once, and then two years went by and nobody looked again.
The failures we find when we take over an environment are boringly consistent. The backup agent stopped reporting months ago and no one was watching the console. The destination filled up, so jobs have been failing quietly ever since. Somebody borrowed the external drive for something else and never plugged it back in. Retention was left at seven days and the corruption started three weeks ago. A server was added last year and never included in the job. A laptop was never in scope at all because nobody decided whose responsibility that was.
And the one that closes businesses: the backup sat on the same network as everything else, reachable with the same credentials, so ransomware encrypted the backup along with the originals. That single failure is why immutability matters more than any other setting on this page. A copy that can be altered by whoever compromised your network is not a copy you can recover from.
None of that is exotic and none of it needs bad luck. It is what happens when checking the backup is nobody's actual job. The difference between having backups and being able to recover is whether a person looks at them, every day, and does something when the answer is wrong.
What happens when you actually need to recover
The call almost always starts the same way. Something is gone, and nobody is sure yet how much.
The first move is not restoring anything. If this is ransomware, affected machines get isolated before a single file comes back, because restoring clean data onto a network that is still compromised just hands the attacker fresh material to encrypt. People lose their second copy that way more often than they lose the first.
Then scope. What is actually affected, how far back does it go, and what is the most recent restore point that is definitely clean. That last question is the whole argument for retention. If the only copies you keep are from the last seven days and the problem started three weeks ago, every copy you have is already carrying it.
Then order. Not everything comes back at once, and pretending otherwise is how recoveries drift. What does the business need first to function at all, usually email and the one application everything else runs through? That order is worth deciding while nothing is on fire, which is why it gets written down during onboarding rather than improvised on the day.
On timing, we will give you a real answer rather than a comfortable one. A deleted folder is minutes. A failed workstation is usually the same day. A server rebuilt from the offsite copy is hours to a day or more, driven mostly by how much data has to travel and how fast your connection moves it. Any provider who quotes you a fixed recovery time without knowing your data volume is guessing, and you will find out which way they guessed at the worst possible moment.
Disaster recovery for New Jersey businesses
New Jersey has a specific version of this problem, and it is not ransomware. It is water. The remnants of Hurricane Ida flooded parts of northern and central New Jersey in 2021, Sandy reshaped the shore in 2012, and every few winters a nor'easter takes power out across whole counties for days. Businesses in the Raritan and Passaic basins and along the coast are not being paranoid about this.
It matters here because of what offsite has to mean. A second drive in the same closet, or a backup server in the next room, is not an offsite copy. It is a second copy of everything you are about to lose to the same event. The same is true of a NAS in the basement of a building that has flooded before. If both copies can be destroyed by one afternoon of weather, you have one copy.
The other half is whether the business can operate while the building cannot. Restoring a server matters much less than whether your team can reach email, files, and the application they work in from somewhere that still has power. That question drives more of what we configure than the backup schedule does, and it is usually the first thing nobody has thought about.
The businesses we do this for across New Jersey are medical and dental practices, schools, manufacturers, dealerships, and professional services firms. Different data, same two questions: how much can you afford to lose, and how long can you afford to be down. Everything else on this page is downstream of your answers.