A backup is something you shouldn’t have to think about. Avepto handles it end to end, so your attention stays on your business.
Real state of backups
A backup is only worth the restore it makes possible. We spot the most common blind spots at SMEs in French-speaking Switzerland, and we fix them.
Incident detected
00:00Automatic alert triggered
Diagnosis
00:05Assessing the scope of the incident
Restore in progress
00:12Switching to the most recent backup
Verification
00:38Integrity tests and data validation
A flood, a fire, a theft, and the copy disappears with the original. A real backup leaves the building.
An extra copy ships every night to a datacenter in Switzerland. End-to-end encrypted. Unreachable from the office.
A permanently connected Synology stays exposed to ransomware, accidental deletion and simultaneous disk failure.
The backup system keeps copies out of the network’s reach. As an option, they become unerasable, even by an administrator.
Microsoft guarantees service availability. Recovering an email deleted three months ago, a OneDrive file or a SharePoint site remains your responsibility.
Mail, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams are backed up independently of Microsoft. Granular restore, 365 days minimum.
A backup job marked "successful" proves nothing. Without documented verification, you’ll discover the problem on incident day.
Each month, a coherence check confirms the backups are complete and recoverable. The result is logged. If something breaks, we know in time.
If the backup is mounted, shared or simply reachable from the network, it can be encrypted alongside production data.
As an option, backup copies become immutable for the retention period. Ransomware can encrypt everything, it cannot touch them.
No defined recovery time, no written procedure, no owner. On D-day, everyone improvises, and the bill grows by the hour.
Recovery time and acceptable data loss are defined with you. An owner is named. The procedure is written and kept up to date.
Sectors we serve
Avepto adapts the scope to your real infrastructure. No tool imposed, no contractual lock-in beyond the service term.
Closings, payroll and tax filings: a single day without the files and the whole firm grinds to a halt.
Patient records and medical confidentiality: neither data loss nor a compliance gap is an option.
Plans, models and live projects: heavy, versioned files that cannot simply be redone.
Contracts, deliverables and client relationships: your commercial memory has to survive any incident.
Production, orders and shop-floor plans: every IT outage is paid for immediately in revenue.
Confidential files, deeds and archives: legal retention obligations that tolerate no failure.
3-2-1 strategy
Several copies, on distinct media, one of them off-site. That’s the foundation of a backup that truly withstands the unexpected.
The environment used every day. Synced, shared, in motion.
Instant restore of a file, an email, a VM. Isolated from the domain.
Survives fire, theft, disaster. Off-site, managed by Avepto.
Common questions
Everything we are asked about backup and recovery, gathered in one place.
No. A NAS stays connected to the network, in the same building, and faces the same risks as the original data: ransomware, theft, water damage, simultaneous disk failure. A NAS can be part of a backup strategy but doesn’t constitute one on its own.
No, not really. Microsoft operates under a shared responsibility model: your data belongs to you, and protecting it is up to you. Accidental deletion, ransomware, a misconfiguration, a departing employee: those cases stay on your side. What Microsoft provides is retention, not a backup. Depending on your licences and settings, it keeps data for 14 to 90 days. And that retention is built for compliance and information lifecycle management, not for fast recovery after an incident. That is why Avepto backs up your Microsoft 365 separately.
In two locations. A local copy on your premises for fast restores, and an off-site copy in a datacentre in Switzerland, encrypted; immutability is available as an option. Your data does not leave Swiss territory and stays subject to Swiss law. Avepto runs both copies and checks that they complete correctly.
It depends on the volume, the type of failure and the recovery time objective (RTO) chosen. A file takes a few minutes. A virtual machine (VM), 30 minutes to several hours. A full physical server, generally 2 to 8 hours. Avepto sets this objective with you and checks that it stays realistic.
Yes. Avepto backs up Macs, PCs, Windows servers, Linux, hypervisors and mixed environments alike. Our SME clients rarely run a single system, and the backup covers every device under one contract. You get uniform protection, whatever hardware your teams use.
The services most often deployed alongside this one, and the field notes published by our specialists.
Next step
We meet to walk through your current strategy: what is backed up, where the copies go, how you would restart. You leave with useful recommendations, no commitment.
