What’s the best way to back up my systems?

We recommend Neovault, a proven disaster recovery backup tool as the best way to back up your system in a modern IT enviroment.

FAQ · Backup Strategy

The best way to back up business systems is a combined local-and-cloud approach: a local backup protects against internet outages, while a cloud backup protects against hardware failure or a local disaster, and together they cover the two failure modes a single method cannot.

Why one backup method alone is not enough

A local-only backup — an external drive or a second on-site device — is fast to restore from but is destroyed alongside the original equipment in a fire, flood, theft or hardware failure that affects the whole office. A cloud-only backup depends entirely on internet connectivity, which in the British Virgin Islands can be interrupted during storms or outages exactly when a fast restore is most needed.

Running both closes that gap: local backups run at least daily for quick recovery of accidentally deleted files, and cloud backups run nightly at the server level as a disaster-recovery layer.

What a proper cloud backup includes

Image-level backup of the operating system and applications, not just data files, so a full server can be rebuilt quickly.
End-to-end encryption in transit and at rest.
Retention that allows recovery of files from before a ransomware infection was noticed, not just the most recent copy.
Regular, verified test restores — a backup that has never been restored is not a proven backup.

How Fresh Mango helps

Fresh Mango Technologies configures local backup drives for servers and PCs and deploys NeoVault, a disaster-recovery-grade cloud backup platform, as the offsite layer for businesses across Tortola and Virgin Gorda. NeoVault images entire systems rather than only copying files, giving faster, cleaner recovery than plain file storage.

Frequently asked questions

Is a local backup drive on its own good enough?

No. It protects against accidental deletion or a single failed disk, but not against fire, theft, flood or a ransomware infection that also encrypts attached drives. It needs to be paired with an offsite cloud backup.

How often should backups run?

Local backups should run at least daily; cloud backups should run nightly at the server level so a full day's work is never at risk.

How do I know my backup actually works?

Only a completed test restore confirms this. A backup job reporting "success" tells you the copy process ran, not that the data is recoverable — ask your IT provider how often restores are actually tested.

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We adopt and recommend a ‘belt and braces approach’ as the best way to back up. By which we mean both local and cloud backup combined. Local in case your internet connectivity fails; Cloud in case your hardware fails. Local backup drives can be provided for servers and PCs and configured to automatically backup regularly (at least daily). Cloud Backup should be configured at the server level to backup every night. We recommend Neovault, a proven disaster recovery backup tool as the best way to back up your system. It doesn’t just backup files, but can ‘image’ elements of your system, such as the operating system for clean, quick and effective backups.