Can You Prove Your Backups?
The job says success every night. The question your client and their insurer ask is different: does it restore, and how do you know? Score how you check restores today, with whatever you run.
Answer for a typical client and whatever backup you run today. You'll see your score at the end, and the full report names the gap an insurer would find first.
8 questions
- Beyond the job status, what tells you a client's backup would actually restore?
- How often does your team restore a client's server, start to finish, to prove it comes back?
- If a client's insurer asked today for proof of tested backups, what would you send?
- Could someone holding your admin login delete or shorten your clients' backups?
- If a client's building or network was gone tomorrow, where's the copy you'd restore from?
- If a client's admin removed the consent your Microsoft 365 backup runs on, when would you find out?
- What protects your clients' Microsoft 365 data today?
- If a client's main server died this afternoon, how long until it's running again?
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Answer for a typical client and whatever backup you run today. You'll see your score at the end, and the full report names the gap an insurer would find first.
VerificationEvidence and RecoveryImmutability and OffsiteMicrosoft 365
Nobody sees your answers until you ask for the full result.
What Your Report Shows
Your score out of 100, and where it puts you: Hoping, Checking or Proving. Each area on its own (verification, evidence and recovery, immutability and offsite copies, Microsoft 365), with what your answers mean for it. Your weakest area gets a box of its own, with what closing it takes. What stood out in your answers, in plain words, so whoever runs your backups knows where to start. It's a two-page PDF sent to your work email, and nobody sees your answers until you ask for it.
Questions MSPs Ask About Proving Backups
How do I prove my clients' backups actually work?
Restore them on a schedule, and keep what each restore produced. A completed job proves data moved. Only a restore or a boot proves it comes back, and only a dated record of it proves that to anyone else. The scorecard shows where your current checks stop.
How often should an MSP test backup restores?
Monthly, with quarterly as the floor. EnterProtect BCDR won't let a restore-test schedule drop below quarterly, ships monthly as the default, and on top of that boots every new recovery point in isolation, so the proof never waits for a spare afternoon.
What proof of backups do cyber insurers ask for?
Increasingly, evidence rather than a signed statement: restore tests with dates and results, and proof the backup copy is isolated from the systems an attacker would reach. EnterProtect builds that bundle for a client in a minute, and names anything it can't show.
Does the scorecard ask which backup product we use?
No. Every question is about how you check restores today, whatever you run, and none of them names a vendor.