Belton Farm Cheesemakers

The Client:

Belton Farm Cheese makers

The Challenge:

Modernise the IT backup and restore system to keep ahead of today’s threats and ensure business continuity.

The Solution:

Automatic hourly backup of Belton Farm’s data

The Result:

Backups that are quick and easy to A. Check B. Restore C. Access from anywhere, anytime. With a Ransomware early warning system.

THE CLIENT…

Belton Farm are a successful Shropshire-based British cheesemaker with turnover in excess of £30m.

They take their IT infrastructure and best practices seriously and see it as the backbone of their business.

THE CHALLENGE…

Belton Farm’s data backup strategy was based on comprehensive onsite local backups with a management rota to also take backups offsite.

Despite not having suffered data security breaches or data loss, they asked Skunkworks IT to advise on how the latest industry technology could improve their business continuity strategy and eliminate potential points of failure, such as physically taking backups offsite.

Testing that the backups were fully completed was resource-intensive and any damaged hardware would need to have been replaced before the time-consuming restore process could start

THE SOLUTION…

1. Discussion on company data types, usage, file and storage size and analysis of business impact in case of a data disaster: physical damage; human error; malicious attack.
2. Budget advice and explanation of suitable potential solutions
3. Recommendation for Belton Farm: Datto SIRIS – Data and Systems protection. If you’re wondering: Datto is the brand, SIRIS is one of their products – an all-in-one solution for implementation by your Managed Service Provider (MSP) – Skunkworks IT in this case.
   Remember that many factors influence the recommended solution!
4. Hourly automatic backup of the company’s servers from 8am to 6pm, 7 days a week.

Note: Backups could be every 5 minutes but were not necessary for Belton Farm’s requirement.