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Backup & Disaster Recovery

Protect your business with enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery solutions designed for organizations in Kenya and East Africa.

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Comprehensive data protection and business continuity solutions from DesertLink IT.

DesertLink IT helps organizations across Kenya and East Africa safeguard their critical data and applications with enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery solutions. Our team designs and manages robust protection strategies that minimize downtime, ensure data integrity, and keep your business running through any disruption.

We deliver end-to-end backup and DR services spanning Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Veeam Backup & Replication, on-premises backup infrastructure, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity consulting. From RPO/RTO definition to failover testing and ongoing management, we provide the expertise and tools you need to achieve your recovery objectives.

Backup & DR Offerings

Comprehensive data protection solutions tailored to your organization's needs.

Azure Backup

Enterprise backup for Azure VMs, SQL Server, SAP HANA, Azure Files, and on-premises workloads. Policy-based scheduling, encryption at rest and in transit, and long-term retention with immutable storage.

Azure Site Recovery

Automated disaster recovery and failover for Azure workloads and on-premises environments. Replicate, fail over, and fail back with orchestrated recovery plans and non-disruptive DR drills.

Veeam Backup & Replication

Industry-leading backup for virtual, physical, and cloud environments. Instant VM recovery, granular file-level restore, backup copy jobs, and integration with Azure Blob and S3 for off-site storage.

On-Premises Backup

Traditional backup infrastructure including tape libraries, NAS appliances, and disk-based backup appliances. Integrated with cloud for hybrid tiering and off-site protection.

Disaster Recovery Planning

Comprehensive DR planning including business impact analysis, RPO/RTO definition, recovery strategy design, runbook creation, and regular failover testing to validate readiness.

Business Continuity Consulting

Strategic consulting to align your backup and DR capabilities with business continuity objectives. Risk assessments, capability maturity models, and continuity plan development.

Backup & DR Benefits

Why organizations across East Africa trust DesertLink IT for data protection.

Minimize Downtime

Achieve rapid recovery times with automated failover and orchestrated recovery plans that bring systems back online in minutes, not days.

Automated Recovery

Eliminate manual recovery processes with policy-driven automation, scheduled backups, and one-click failover that reduces human error.

Cost-Effective

Pay-as-you-go cloud backup eliminates capital expenditure on secondary infrastructure while reducing operational overhead and management complexity.

Compliance Ready

Meet regulatory and industry compliance requirements with immutable backups, encryption, audit logging, and retention policies aligned to your obligations.

How We Implement Backup & DR

A structured methodology for data protection and disaster recovery.

1

Assessment

Evaluate your current data protection posture, identify critical systems, and define RPO/RTO requirements aligned with business priorities.

2

Architecture

Design a backup and disaster recovery architecture that meets your recovery objectives, budget, and compliance requirements.

3

Implementation

Deploy backup infrastructure, configure replication, establish policies, and integrate with your existing IT environment.

4

Testing

Conduct thorough failover and restore testing to validate recovery procedures, RPO/RTO attainment, and operational readiness.

5

Ongoing Management

Continuous monitoring, backup verification, policy tuning, and periodic DR drills to ensure ongoing protection and readiness.

Protect Your Business Today

Contact our backup and disaster recovery team for assessments, architecture design, and implementation services.