Backup & Disaster Recovery in Kuwait

Usually not on its own. Provider backups protect against their infrastructure failing. They frequently do not protect you from a deletion, a bad import, a ransomware event inside your own account, or losing access to the account itself. An independent copy you control, stored separately, covers the cases that actually affect businesses.

Because a backup that completes and a backup that restores are different things. Jobs silently skip files, exclude a database that was locked, or store data that cannot be read back. These are only ever discovered during a restore — and discovering it during a real incident is the worst possible time. A scheduled test restore is the only thing that makes a backup a fact rather than a belief.

Long enough to cover a problem you did not notice immediately. Ransomware and corrupted data are often discovered weeks later, by which time a short retention window has already overwritten every clean copy. Retention is set per data type against how long a problem could plausibly go unnoticed.

A backup is a copy of the data. Disaster recovery is the plan for getting the business operating again — where it will run, who does what, in which order, and how long it takes. Having the first without the second is common, and means you hold the data but still cannot say when you would be trading again.

Yes, including infrastructure we do not manage. It does not require moving anything to us, and it is worth doing regardless of who hosts you.