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Help us understand your backup requirements.

This questionnaire gathers the initial technical context needed for a productive discussion about backup, recovery objectives and replication. It takes around five minutes.

What data needs protecting?

We ask about your critical workloads including file servers, databases, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace data, virtual machines and on-premises systems.

Recovery objectives

RTO and RPO shape the architecture. We need to understand what downtime or data loss is acceptable for each system you rely on.

Replication requirements

Whether you need local-only backup, cloud replication, geo-redundancy or a combination is central to the design conversation.

Existing infrastructure

Understanding what is already in place avoids recommending changes to things that already work well for your team.

What to have ready.

  • A rough inventory of systems that need backup (servers, desktops, cloud accounts)
  • Your approximate total data volume in GB or TB
  • Any existing backup tools or cloud storage already in use
  • Your preferred recovery window if a critical system fails
  • Compliance or regulatory requirements that affect data residency

Prefer to start with a conversation first? Book a consultation instead.

Backup and recovery questionnaire

Your answers will be reviewed by our team before we reach out.

How much data loss is acceptable?

How much downtime is acceptable?

We strongly recommend Site-to-Site VPN

Disaster recovery planning.

Explore the ShieldForce Disaster Recovery solution for context on architecture options, replication strategies and RTO/RPO design.

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