A spares cabinet gets judged one way. You open it in a hurry and either the part is there and fits, or it is not. Nine lines cover the machines and cloud accounts a firm runs on, and one exists purely to prove the parts still fit.
Working documents on a Windows box, whole workstations, physical servers, virtual guests, the Microsoft 365 tenant, Google Workspace, a QuickBooks Online ledger and the directory in Entra ID. Each is a separate line because each is a separate job against a separate unit, and bundling them would obscure what you are and are not holding.
The cloud lines are the ones people skip. A platform staying available is a different matter from a platform keeping your material, and thirty days of directory history has ended more than one bad week badly.
Recovery rehearsal runs restores on a rota and writes down the outcome. It is the least glamorous line we publish, and the last one we would give up if somebody made us choose, because copies nobody has restored are a belief rather than a fact.
It also produces the document an auditor asks for, which saves a scramble at exactly the wrong moment.
Copies nobody has ever restored are a belief, not a fact.
Figures below are read straight from billing. Whatever you sign out waits on your roll while you keep reading.
Version history covering the documents somebody currently has open, on a Windows box. Office files, drawings, small databases and the rest get lifted twice daily, and anything saved inside the past 28 days returns in seconds without becoming a project.
| Fits | One Windows workstation. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Windows workstations, and nothing else. |
| Stored for | 28 days of versions across the files in scope. |
| Issued by | N-able Cove, configured by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, chasing a failed run before you notice it. |
The entire box rather than the documents living on it. What gets taken and when is yours to shape, a local copy can sit alongside the cloud one, and a Windows workstation returns onto bare hardware instead of being rebuilt by hand across two days.
| Fits | One workstation. Storage pools at 500GB for each workstation line. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Workstations on Linux, macOS or Windows. Bare metal return is Windows only. |
| Stored for | Depth agreed with you, drawn against the pooled storage these lines carry. |
| Issued by | N-able Cove, landed by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, chasing down any job that fails. |
Server grade copies of physical hardware, taking in the database, mail and collaboration workloads that turn a plain file copy into a useless one. Retrieve a single document, or set the whole machine back onto bare hardware.
| Fits | One physical server. Storage pools at 2000GB for each server line. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Servers running Windows, and Linux ones as well. |
| Stored for | Depth agreed with you, drawn against the pooled storage these lines carry. |
| Issued by | N-able Cove, landed by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, chasing down any job that fails. |
The same server grade treatment pointed at virtual machines and counted per guest, so a host carrying four of them is four lines. Database and collaboration workloads get handled as what they are, not copied about as though they were ordinary files.
| Fits | One virtual server. Each virtual server line pools 2000GB of storage. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Guests running Windows, and Linux ones as well. |
| Stored for | Depth agreed with you, drawn against the pooled storage these lines carry. |
| Issued by | N-able Cove, landed by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, chasing down any job that fails. |
Copies of the mail, files, sites and conversations inside Microsoft 365, held apart from the platform itself. Microsoft is extremely good at staying available. Staying available and being a backup are separate things, and the history on offer falls well short of what an audit or a rotten month will demand.
| Fits | One licensed person. Shared mailboxes are not counted against you. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Microsoft 365, joined at the tenant. |
| Stored for | Exchange reaches back seven years; OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint reach back one. |
| Issued by | N-able Cove, joined up by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, chasing down any job that fails. |
Drives, mail, tasks, calendars and contacts lifted out of Google Workspace on a rota, with retrieval fine grained enough to hand back one message instead of an entire mailbox nobody asked for.
| Fits | One licensed Google Workspace person. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Google Workspace, joined at the tenant. |
| Stored for | Depth agreed with you at the point the connection is made. |
| Issued by | Dropsuite, joined up by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, chasing down any job that fails. |
Intuit gives no undertaking to hand your ledgers back. This line copies a QuickBooks Online company without pause and returns it when asked, which covers the mundane calamity of somebody deleting the wrong thing quite as well as the theatrical kind.
| Fits | One QuickBooks Online company file. Companies count, bookkeepers do not. |
|---|---|
| Works on | QuickBooks Online, joined by authorizing the account. |
| Stored for | Storage without a ceiling, and history held while you keep the line. |
| Issued by | Dropsuite, joined up by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, chasing down any job that fails. |
The directory is what everything else puts its trust in, and Microsoft holds only a month of it. This line keeps the configuration as far back as you care to go, shows what moved and when it moved, and restores a value to the state it stood in without a support case and a wasted afternoon.
| Fits | One Entra ID tenant. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Microsoft Entra ID. |
| Stored for | No stated ceiling, and export in an open format whenever you want it. |
| Issued by | Dropsuite, joined up by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, flagging movements worth a question. |
The line that opens the cabinet deliberately. Recoveries are rehearsed on a rota against protected systems and the outcome gets written down, so whether your copies actually work is settled long before the worst week of the year turns up.
| Fits | One protected system on the recovery rota. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Systems that a different line on this board already protects. |
| Stored for | Outcomes and proof are kept while you hold the line. |
| Issued by | N-able Cove recovery testing, put on a rota by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, digging into a rehearsal that does not pass. |
Backup is easy to sell and easy to get wrong. Below is what the nine lines above do and do not undertake.
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