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Backup & Disaster Recovery

Disaster doesn’t
ask permission.
Be ready to recover.

Wolf Consulting engineers resilient recovery — immutable offsite backups, rapid failover, and tested continuity plans that turn a fire, a ransomware hit, or a deleted file into a non-event. Because a backup is only real if it actually restores. Rooted in Pittsburgh since 1989.

5.0MSP 501 · Ranked #70 Globally
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Lyra Recovery

Purpose-built backup and disaster-recovery tooling that underpins rapid, verified restores.

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Partners with Fifth Wall

Fifth Wall

A disaster-recovery partnership that extends our backup and recovery capabilities with specialist recovery infrastructure.

Partnered with Fifth Wall for disaster-recovery depth.

The Pain Points

Most companies don’t find out their backup failed until the day they need it.

Sound Familiar?
Pain Point 01Untested Backups

Your backup runs green — until you try to restore

A job that reports “success” isn’t proof of anything. Plenty of teams discover — the hard way — that the one file, server, or database they need never actually restored. A backup you’ve never tested is a hope, not a plan.

Pain Point 02Ransomware Targets Backups

Attackers come for your backups first

Modern ransomware crews specifically hunt for backups and encrypt them before they trigger — because a company that can restore doesn’t pay. Third-party research finds 96% of ransomware attacks now target backup systems, and most succeed. If your copies aren’t immutable and isolated, they go down with everything else.

Pain Point 03Downtime Has a Price

Every hour down is measured in real dollars

When systems go dark, orders, payroll, and production stop with them. The US Bureau of Labor reports that 93% of companies that suffer a significant data loss are out of business within five years — downtime isn’t an inconvenience, it’s an existential risk.

Pain Point 04Physical Disasters Happen

Fire, flood, and power loss don’t schedule themselves

A lightning strike, a burst pipe, a fire that forces the power off, a stolen server, or a simple accidental deletion — most data loss comes from small, local events, not headline breaches. If recovery depends on hardware in one building, one bad day can end it.

Pain Point 05No Continuity Plan

You have backups, but no plan to run without the office

Getting data back is only half of recovery. If there’s no plan to keep people working while systems come back — where they log in, what runs first, who does what — a recoverable outage still becomes days of chaos.

How It Works

Recovery you can Actually Count On

Resilience Layer 01

Immutable, Offsite Backups

Your data is replicated to secure, offsite storage on an automated schedule — and written as immutable copies that can’t be altered or encrypted, even by an attacker who gets inside. Air-gapped and geographically separated, so a local disaster never takes your last copy with it.

The 3-2-1 principle, modernized: multiple copies, in multiple places, at least one you can always trust.

Resilience Layer 02

Trust, but Verify — Tested Restores

A backup nobody has restored is just a hope. We run a recurring routine — from “restore this file and confirm it opens” all the way up to bringing full copies of your servers online in a test environment to prove they actually work.

It’s trust, but verify, with everything. The time to find a broken backup is during a scheduled test — not during a real emergency.

Resilience Layer 03

Rapid Failover & Virtualization

When primary systems go down, we spin up virtual copies of your critical servers in minutes — in the cloud or on a local appliance — so your team keeps working while we bring the originals back.

Recovery is measured against clear targets defined with you in advance: how fast you’re running again (RTO) and how little data you can afford to lose (RPO).

Resilience Layer 04

SaaS & Microsoft 365 Backup

Microsoft and Google don’t back up your data the way most people assume — their job is uptime, not undo. We independently back up Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, so a deleted mailbox, a compromised account, or a retention gap doesn’t become permanent loss.

The cloud isn’t a backup. A backup of the cloud is.

Resilience Layer 05

Local Appliance & Continuity Planning

A high-speed local appliance keeps a full, recent copy onsite for immediate restores of large systems — while the offsite cloud copy covers the worst-case, whole-site disaster. Both are managed, monitored, and tested by our team.

Around it we build the plan: a Business Impact Analysis that ranks what has to come back first, and documented steps so recovery is a procedure, not a scramble.

What Our Backup & Recovery Services Cover

Resilient, immutable data protection designed to guarantee business continuity and eliminate catastrophic downtime.

01

Automated Cloud & Offsite Backups

Secure, immutable data replication that isolates your backups from ransomware and hardware failure.

02

Rapid Failover & Virtualization

Drastically minimizing downtime by spinning up virtual network environments in minutes.

03

Custom Business Continuity Planning

Strategically defining Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

04

Routine Disaster Simulation Testing

Regularly validating backup integrity and failover procedures so you have absolute certainty your data is recoverable.

05

Comprehensive SaaS & M365 Backup

Ensuring your critical cloud data in Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams is independently backed up and fully recoverable.

06

Local Appliance Management

Deployment and maintenance of high-speed local backup devices for immediate, onsite data restoration.

Why This Works

Why Wolf Recovery Feels Different
Than a Backup You Never Test

Typical Backup
  • A nightly job that emails “success” and nothing more
  • Backups sitting on the same network ransomware just hit
  • No one has actually restored a server in years
  • Recovery time is “we’ll find out when it happens”
  • Microsoft 365 assumed to be backing itself up
  • A binder labeled “DR Plan” no one has opened
Wolf Recovery
  • Monitored backups with restores tested on a schedule
  • Immutable, air-gapped copies attackers can’t reach
  • Full server failover rehearsed in a test environment
  • Defined RTO and RPO targets agreed with you up front
  • Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams backed up independently
  • A living continuity plan, tested and ready to run

Recoverable, not hopeful.

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Business Continuity in Action

A Fire Cut the Power. The Business Kept Running.

We’ve had occasions where one of our clients, there was a fire in one part of the building, so the fire department had to cut the power of the building and lock everyone out of it. Fortunately, we were able to use our backup systems to power everything online in the cloud, help the clients get connected, everyone continue working from home, almost uninterrupted.

Eli Person · Centralized Services Manager · Wolf Consulting
Cloud
Failover
When a building fire forced the power off and locked staff out, Wolf brought everything back online in the cloud — the client’s team kept working from home, almost uninterrupted.
Cloud servers in a data center — the failover environment that keeps clients running when disaster strikes
Wolf Cloud Failover
Who This Is For

Built for Teams That Can’t Afford to Lose a Day

Is This Right for You?
01You have backups running, but no one has tested a real restore in months
02A day of downtime means lost revenue, stalled production, or missed payroll
03You keep critical data in Microsoft 365 and assume it’s already backed up
04Your cyber-insurance renewal now asks whether your backups are immutable and tested
05You’d rather rehearse a disaster than improvise through a real one
Common Questions

Backup and recovery questions Pittsburgh businesses ask

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We start every relationship the same way — with an honest conversation. No pressure, no fear-mongering.

No 50-page assessment. Just a straightforward look at how you’re protected today, where the gaps are, and whether Wolf is the right partner to close them.

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