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Your data, protected. Recoverable in minutes, not weeks.

Immutable backup, archive, and disaster recovery on Azure, AWS, Wasabi, and Veeam — tested quarterly, ransomware-proof, and engineered for actual recovery, not just promises on paper.

Veeam, Acronis, Datto, Microsoft 365 backup
Immutable & air-gapped copies
Quarterly DR drills included
What you get

Recovery you can actually rely on — not just a hopeful spreadsheet.

Every backup verified. Every restore rehearsed. Every retention policy mapped to your compliance obligations and your business reality.

<15 min
Recovery Point Objective
Critical workloads backed up at 15-minute intervals or better. Configurable per-system.
<1 hr
Recovery Time Objective
Cloud failover for tier-1 workloads. Bare-metal restore for everything else — tested.
3-2-1-1-0
Backup architecture
Three copies, two media types, one offsite, one immutable, zero errors. Industry standard.
100%
Canadian data residency
Backups land in Canada Central / East regions by default. PIPEDA & OSFI aligned.
Our approach

The 3-2-1-1-0 rule — the modern backup standard.

Veeam pioneered it. The industry adopted it. We engineer to it on every customer engagement — because anything less leaves you exposed to ransomware, hardware failure, or human error.

3

Copies

Production data plus two additional independent copies — minimum.

2

Media types

Different storage technologies. Disk, object, tape — never all the same.

1

Offsite copy

At least one copy lives in a geographically separate location.

1

Immutable

One copy is air-gapped or write-once — un-deletable, even by an admin.

0

Errors

Zero failed verifications. Every backup tested for restore-ability automatically.

Storage strategy

The right data on the right tier — for the right cost.

Not every byte deserves premium storage. We tier your data based on how often you actually access it — cutting storage spend by 50–70% without touching recoverability.

Hot

Hot — Production & active workloads

SSD-backed block storage for live databases, VMs, and high-IOPS applications you touch every minute.

$$$$ / TB / month
Access: instant · RTO: minutes
Warm

Warm — Recent backups & near-term recovery

Standard object storage for daily backups, snapshots, and data accessed weekly to monthly.

$$$ / TB / month
Access: seconds · RTO: under 1 hour
Cool

Cool — Older backups & long-tail data

Lower-cost object storage for backups older than 30 days, project archives, and reference datasets.

$$ / TB / month
Access: minutes · RTO: 1–4 hours
Archive

Archive — Compliance & long-term retention

Glacier-class deep storage for 7-year compliance retention, legal hold, and historical data you must keep but rarely touch.

$ / TB / month
Access: hours · RTO: same-day
What we deliver

Twelve services, fully managed.

Every backup job, every snapshot, every retention rule, every DR runbook — designed, tested, and operated by us.

Backup & Recovery

Daily operations

Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS)

Veeam, Acronis, or Datto-powered backup for servers, endpoints, and cloud workloads — agent-based and agentless.

SQL, Oracle & Database Backup

Application-consistent backup with transaction-log granularity. Point-in-time restores down to the second.

VM & Hypervisor Snapshots

VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Azure, AWS — image-level backup with instant-VM-recovery for tier-1 workloads.

Microsoft 365 & Workspace Backup

Mailbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and shared-drive backup — because Microsoft’s native retention isn’t a backup.

Archive & Long-Term Retention

Compliance

Compliance Archive

7-year retention for OSFI, FINTRAC, Law Society, and PIPEDA. Tamper-evident with chain-of-custody logs.

WORM & Legal Hold

Write-once-read-many storage for regulatory and litigation hold. Object-lock enforced at the storage layer.

Object Storage (S3-compatible)

Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Azure Blob, AWS S3 — managed object stores with predictable, egress-aware pricing.

Immutable & Air-Gapped Vaults

Logically air-gapped backup repositories that survive admin-credential compromise. Ransomware can’t touch them.

Disaster Recovery

Worst-case ready

DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS)

Continuous replication to a hot standby site in Azure or AWS. Failover orchestrated, documented, and rehearsed.

Bare-Metal & Granular Restore

Recover an entire server, a single VM, a single file, or a single email — on demand, with documented runbooks.

Ransomware-Resilient Recovery

Clean-room restore environment, malware scanning of backups, and IR-ready playbooks for the day it happens.

Quarterly DR Testing

Real failover drills — not paper exercises. Documented evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and your board.

Ransomware reality

If your backups can be deleted by an admin, they can be deleted by an attacker.

Modern ransomware groups specifically hunt and destroy backup repositories before triggering encryption. Immutability is no longer optional — it’s the difference between recovery and ransom payment.

Threat profile

How AlecTech makes backups un-deletable.

Every backup architecture we build assumes the attacker has domain-admin credentials, knows your tooling, and is actively trying to wipe your recovery options. The 1 in 3-2-1-1-0 is the part most providers skip.

  • Object-lock and S3 versioning enforced at the storage layer
  • Backup admin credentials stored in a separate identity domain
  • Logical air-gap with one-way replication into the immutable vault
  • Anomaly detection on backup-job patterns — mass-deletion alerts in real time
  • Annual restore-from-air-gap drill, witnessed and documented
Production NAS
Network-reachable · admin-deletable
At risk
Local backup repository
Same-credential · admin-deletable
At risk
Immutable cloud vault
Object-lock · separate identity
Protected
Air-gapped archive
One-way replication · WORM
Protected
Certified across the storage and backup vendors you trust your data to

When did you last actually restore from backup — not just hope it would work?

Book a 15-minute call with a senior backup & recovery engineer. We’ll walk through the gaps we typically find at your profile, and tell you honestly if we’re the right answer.