An understudy is not pessimism about the lead. It is what a serious production has because the show is expected to happen either way. This department keeps a separate copy of the computers, the mail, the shared drives, the accounting file and the directory, kept well away from whatever it is standing in for.
A sync repeats an error just as quickly, and just as faithfully, as it repeats good work. When an assistant deletes the shared drive, or a compromised account starts encrypting files, sync faithfully distributes that to every device in seconds. It is a convenience feature, and it has been mistaken for a safety net in most estates we have taken over.
A backup is a separate copy, in separate custody, taken at a point in time you can return to. The whole value is in the separation.
Every copy is encrypted, then kept clear of three things: the tenant, then the network, then the credentials it exists to protect. That separation is what counts when an account is taken over: somebody holding full command of your environment can wreck anything within it, and cannot touch a copy that was never inside their reach.
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace keep your mail available. Neither is a backup, and both are explicit about that in their own terms. The same is true of QuickBooks Online, where the accounting file of a touring or production company sits with no recovery promise attached to it, and of the directory that decides who is allowed to be who.
The restore rehearsal line runs an unattended recovery on a schedule and hands back written proof that it worked. An untested backup is a belief. This is the line that turns it into a fact, and it is the one people skip and later wish they had not.
| Custody | Encrypted, then stored apart from every system, account and credential it covers |
|---|---|
| Machines | Workstations, plus physical and virtual servers, with bare metal recovery where the platform allows it |
| Cloud accounts | Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Entra ID and QuickBooks Online |
| Working files | Frequent capture of documents in progress with version history |
| Verification | Unattended restore rehearsals with a written report |
| Monitoring | Failed jobs reach the desk, not a dashboard nobody opens |
| Priced by | Per machine, per licensed user, per virtual server, per tenant, per company file, or per protected system, monthly |
Whatever you add here joins anything already chosen. Nothing is charged before you finish checkout, and your selections are kept as you move through the other briefs.
Frequent capture of documents in progress, with history to reach back through.
The whole machine, recoverable rather than merely copied.
Server grade coverage for the physical machines a company still runs.
Identical cover pointed at virtual servers, including the undocumented one.
Mail, files and collaboration held well outside the tenant they came from.
Google mail and drives in separate custody, restorable down to one message.
Independent custody of the accounting file, counted per company.
Directory configuration kept, with changes surfaced and reversible.
A scheduled recovery that runs by itself and returns written proof.
Heads up: card statements show FORTIFY 24X7 - Red Carpet Computing is a Fortify 24x7 brand, and your subscription is billed by Fortify 24x7.
Backup protects what is inside the scope of the line you bought. It is worth being exact about what that does and does not include.
Every line on this page is a subscription within the digital protection stack. Physical security, and taking private information off surface web and dark web sources, are handled by the concierge as engagements in their own right. Each is scoped and quoted for the situation in front of it, none of them is a product on this domain, and no version of either will ever reach this checkout. Write to concierge@redcarpetcomputing.com if that is the help you want.