Backup & Disaster Recovery in Brooklyn, NY
A lot of Brooklyn businesses back up to a drive somebody swaps on Fridays, or to a NAS in the same room as the server it protects, in a building that has flooded before. NetSys has been headquartered in Brooklyn since 1998, at 1 Prospect Park SW, and provides backup and disaster recovery across the borough: immutable backups with an offline copy, restores tested and timed, recovery objectives per system, ransomware recovery, continuity planning and independent Microsoft 365 backup, month to month.
The short answer
NetSys provides backup and disaster recovery to Brooklyn businesses from its Park Slope headquarters, the company's only office. The service covers immutable backups that ransomware cannot encrypt or delete, an offline copy kept away from the building, cloud replicas for the systems that have to come back fast, recovery time and recovery point objectives agreed per system, scheduled restore tests with timed results, ransomware recovery from isolation through root cause, business continuity planning for staff and customers, and independent backup of Microsoft 365. NetSys has recovered every client hit by ransomware in more than thirty incidents over three years, and the clients with a disaster recovery plan were working again within 24 hours. On-site recovery work in Brooklyn is the shortest trip we make. Agreements are month to month.
Disaster recovery risk in Brooklyn
The borough's businesses keep their systems in places that fail. Server closets in converted industrial buildings in Red Hook, Gowanus and Sunset Park sit at or below street level in areas that have flooded during coastal storms and heavy rain. Food producers run production and refrigeration systems that cannot wait a week for a rebuild. Design and production studios hold archives on a NAS with no second copy. Medical and dental practices store patient records on a workstation under the front desk. Ransomware crews know that a business moving physical goods or seeing patients will feel every hour of downtime, and they time the attack for the weekend. HIPAA requires a contingency plan for practices, the SHIELD Act expects reasonable safeguards for everyone holding personal data, and insurers now ask for offline backups and a tested restore before renewal.
How NetSys delivers backup and disaster recovery from Park Slope
An engineer starts by seeing the environment, which in Brooklyn is a short trip: the server in the basement, the NAS in the edit suite, the practice-management workstation, the Microsoft 365 tenant. We agree a recovery time and recovery point objective for each system with the owner, then build the copies to match: immutable backups the attacker cannot touch, an offline copy off the premises, cloud replicas for anything that must return in minutes, and cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365. Every restore is tested on a schedule and timed, and the runbook records what comes back first and who does it. When something fails, the engineer who built the plan can be in the building the same day to rebuild hardware or stand up a temporary environment. The plan is reviewed whenever systems change, and the agreement runs month to month.
Who backup and disaster recovery in Brooklyn fits
Food and beverage producers and distributors whose production and ordering systems cannot be down for long, studios and agencies with archives that exist in one place, medical and dental practices with a HIPAA contingency-plan obligation, law and accounting firms whose document system is the practice, retailers with point-of-sale data, and any business in a building that has taken on water before. A company with its own IT person fits as co-managed, with NetSys owning the backup platform, the tests and the runbook. A business that has never restored anything, and would rather find out what happens in a test than in an emergency, is the clearest fit of all.
Backup & Disaster Recovery in Brooklyn, NY: what NetSys delivers
Backup copies
- Immutable backups of servers, workstations and NAS storage that cannot be altered from inside the network
- An offline copy and an off-site copy, so a flooded closet or an encrypted server is not the only version
- Cloud-to-cloud backup of Microsoft 365 mail, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams
- Daily verification that every backup completed, with failures investigated by an engineer
Recovery design and testing
- Recovery time and recovery point objectives set per system with the person who depends on it
- Cloud replicas for production, ordering and patient systems that cannot wait for a rebuild
- Restore tests on a schedule, timed and written up
- A recovery runbook naming the order of return and the person responsible for each step
Ransomware recovery
- Isolation of infected machines so the encryption stops spreading
- Recovery from immutable copies in business-priority order
- The entry point found and closed before systems return
- A written incident timeline for leadership and the insurer
- An engineer on-site in the borough the same day when hardware needs rebuilding
Business continuity
- Where staff work and how orders or patients are handled while systems are down
- Communication paths that survive the loss of the office network and phones
- Manual procedures for production, shipping and front-desk work
- A plan reviewed when the business changes, not filed and forgotten
A Brooklyn design studio with an archive on one NAS
A composite example of work we do in Brooklyn, NY, written so you can picture the first 90 days. It is not a specific client. Our real, anonymized engagements are in case studies.
A studio in a converted loft with a dozen staff and a NAS holding every project since the company began, backed up to nothing. Client work in progress lives on the same device. Email and contracts are in Microsoft 365. The building's ground floor flooded during a storm two years ago and the landlord has warned it could happen again. A ransomware infection on a freelancer's laptop recently encrypted a shared folder before anyone noticed.
- Inventory and recovery objectives: current projects need to be back within hours, the archive within days, email within the same day
- Immutable, off-site backup of the NAS with an offline copy, so an encrypted or flooded device is no longer the only version of the archive
- A cloud replica of the active-projects share so the studio can keep working from home if the loft is closed
- Independent Microsoft 365 backup of mail, OneDrive and SharePoint with retention the studio controls
- A timed restore of a current project and of the encrypted folder, a runbook for the staff, and a continuity plan that covers client delivery during a closure
The encrypted folder comes back from a copy the ransomware could not reach, the archive exists in three places instead of one, and the next flood warning means moving people rather than hardware. The engineer who built it is a short trip away. The studio pays month to month.
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Backup & Disaster Recovery in Brooklyn, NY: FAQs
Who provides backup and disaster recovery in Brooklyn?
The NetSys Group, headquartered at 1 Prospect Park SW in Park Slope, provides backup and disaster recovery to businesses across Brooklyn. The service includes immutable backups with an offline copy, cloud replicas for critical systems, restores tested and timed on a schedule, recovery objectives per system, ransomware recovery, business continuity planning and independent Microsoft 365 backup. Brooklyn is our home borough, so on-site recovery work here is the shortest trip we make, and every agreement is month to month.
Is an external drive or a NAS in the office a good enough backup?
No. A drive in the same room as the server shares its fate: the same flood, the same fire, the same ransomware that encrypts everything it can reach on the network. A NAS is storage, and storage on the network is a target. A real backup has a copy that cannot be altered from inside the network, a copy that is offline, and a copy that is somewhere else, plus a restore test that proves it works. That is what NetSys builds.
What happens if a Brooklyn business gets hit by ransomware?
The affected machines come off the network so encryption stops spreading, then systems are restored from immutable copies the attacker could not reach, in the order the business needs them, and the entry point is closed before anything returns. NetSys has handled more than thirty ransomware incidents in three years and recovered every one; the clients with a disaster recovery plan in place were back within 24 hours. In Brooklyn an engineer can be in the building the same day if hardware has to be rebuilt.
How often should backups and restores be tested?
Backups should be verified every day and restores tested on a schedule set per system, with the results timed and written down. A backup that has never been restored is a hypothesis. NetSys monitors every backup job, investigates failures the day they happen, and runs scheduled restore tests so the recovery time for each system is a measured fact the owner has seen rather than a number on a vendor's data sheet.
Do you back up Microsoft 365 for Brooklyn businesses?
Yes, independently of Microsoft. A tenant's mail, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams are protected by Microsoft against Microsoft's failures, not against a deleted mailbox, a departed employee's account being removed, or a laptop syncing encrypted files into the cloud. Cloud-to-cloud backup keeps copies under your control with retention you choose, and a mailbox or a document library can be brought back years later. It is part of disaster recovery for every NetSys client on Microsoft 365.
What should a business in a flood-prone Brooklyn building do about its server?
Assume the room will take on water and design for it. Backups go off-site and offline, the systems the business cannot work without get a cloud replica that staff can reach from anywhere, and the continuity plan says how the business runs from home or a temporary space until the building is usable. If the server itself can move to the cloud, that is often the cleanest answer. Either way the flood becomes a facilities problem rather than a data loss.
Know your recovery time before you need it.
We look at what is backed up, where it lives, when it was last restored and how long a full recovery would take, then set targets per system.