Website Backup Service UK
What is a website backup and disaster recovery service?
A website backup and disaster recovery service is the discipline of taking regular full and incremental copies of a website's files, database, configuration and DNS so the site can be restored after data loss, compromise or failed deployment. For a UK business in 2026 it covers daily off-site backups, point-in-time restore, geographic redundancy, retention policy, restore drills and the documented disaster recovery runbook that turns a restoration plan from theory into tested practice.
What our backup and disaster recovery covers
Daily off-site backups
Daily full and incremental backups taken automatically and stored in a separate UK region from the origin server. Files, database and server configuration all backed up. Per the UK National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) 2024 Small Business Guide, off-site backup of business data is one of the five core Cyber Essentials controls because on-host backups are useless if the host is compromised or destroyed. We store backups in UK data centres only to maintain UK GDPR data residency.
Point-in-time restore
Point-in-time restore lets you roll back to any backup point inside the retention window, typically minute-resolution for database-backed sites. Per AWS RDS official documentation on point-in-time recovery, the standard production benchmark for managed services is 5-minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and 30-minute Recovery Time Objective (RTO). We meet or beat both targets on standard managed hosting plans.
Quarterly restore drills
Backups untested are backups unverified. We run restore drills on every retained client site every quarter, restoring a backup to a staging environment and verifying the restored site functions correctly. Per Gartner's 2024 Backup and Recovery research, 60 percent of organisations that never test their backups discover restoration failures only when they need them. We test quarterly so failures surface before incidents do.
Disaster recovery runbook
Every retained site has a documented disaster recovery runbook covering incident detection, communication protocols, isolation procedures, restoration steps, post-incident review and stakeholder notification. Per the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) guidance, personal data breaches must be notified within 72 hours under UK GDPR Article 33, which makes documented response procedures a legal as well as operational necessity.
Database-specific backup
Database backups taken separately from file backups, with point-in-time recovery on MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB instances. Database integrity verified on every backup via checksum comparison. Per the WordPress Codex backup best practices, separating database and file backups reduces restore time by 60 to 80 percent for partial recovery scenarios because most ecommerce data lives in the database, not in files.
Geographic redundancy within the UK
Backups stored in a UK region geographically separate from the origin server (London origin to Manchester backup, or vice versa) so a single data centre incident does not destroy both the production site and the backup. Per the UK Government's National Risk Register 2024, the most common UK data centre incidents are power and cooling failures, which are confined to single sites. UK-to-UK geographic redundancy is sufficient for most business continuity scenarios.
Our backup and disaster recovery process
Audit
Current backup posture audited. Cadence, retention, off-site status and last successful restore date all checked. Output: gap list with risk rating.
Configure
Daily off-site backups deployed. Retention configured to 30 days minimum. Disaster recovery runbook drafted.
Test
First restore drill run inside 30 days of onboarding. Restoration verified. Runbook validated.
Maintain
Daily backups continue. Quarterly drills scheduled. Annual disaster recovery review tied to compliance requirements.
"60 percent of organisations that never test their backups discover restoration failures only when they need them. Quarterly drills mean failures surface before incidents."
NCSC Cyber Essentials aligned
Off-site backup is one of the five core controls.
UK geographic redundancy
Origin and backup in separate UK data centres.
Tested quarterly
Restore drills run, not just documented.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sources
- UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Small Business Guide, Cyber Essentials, 2024
- UK Information Commissioner's Office, UK GDPR Article 33 breach notification guidance, 2024
- AWS RDS official Point-in-Time Recovery documentation, 2026
- Gartner Backup and Recovery Research 2024
- UK Government National Risk Register, Data Centre Incidents, 2024
Backups that work. Restores that get tested. Runbook ready.
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