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Guardian Resurgent
Backup and Recovery. Immutable, Encrypted and Air-Gapped Copies. No Egress Charges.
Ransomware can't be stopped completely. Guardian Resurgent protects your storage and backups so you can recover quickly and avoid paying a ransom demand.
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The 3-2-2-1-0 Standard
Guardian Resurgent is built on the 3-2-2-1-0 standard:
- 3 copies of your data: production plus two backups.
- 2 media types, such as snapshots and object storage or tape.
- 2 geographic locations: one local and one out of region, with offsite copies held in Tier 3 facilities.
- 1 immutable copy at minimum. Both offsite copies are stored on immutable, encrypted object storage.
- 0 backup failures: Guardian monitors every backup job and runs recurring test restores.
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What’s Included
Backup as a Service - Managed backup built on the 3-2-2-1-0 standard, with visibility and control over where your data lives and who can access it.
Object Storage - Vendor-agnostic, enterprise object storage for data protection, with multiple availability zones.
Microsoft 365 Backup - Independent, versioned, off-platform backup with point-in-time restore and retention set to your requirements. Coverage includes:
- Exchange Online: mailboxes, folders, email, calendar items, tasks, and contacts.
- SharePoint Online: site collections, document libraries, lists, and individual files.
- OneDrive for Business: user files, folders, and OneNote files.
- Teams: team configurations, settings, members, structure, channels, posts, tabs, and uploaded files.
- Microsoft Entra ID (optional): users, groups, application registrations, and related directory objects.
Disk to Tape Archival - Tape as one of the two media types in the 3-2-2-1-0 standard.
Disaster Recovery as a Service - Recovery environments in three tiers, with a disaster declared by your team or Guardian’s:
- HOT: a dedicated environment with dedicated resources for 100% of your environment
- WARM: 25% of required resources guaranteed available at all times
- COOL: best-effort recovery.
Near real-time replication is also available, with RPO and RTO typically within 15 minutes.
Supported Software - Veeam Backup and Replication with HPE Zerto (replication).
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Recovery Targets and Restore Testing
RPO - 24 hours as standard, with one nightly backup for services and mailboxes. Backup frequency can be increased to meet your requirements.
RTO - Set to your recovery requirements and validated through restore testing.
Restore Testing - Frequency is set by your contract and policies. Guardian recommends at least quarterly testing validation by your team. Tests range from a single-file restore to spinning up your full environment in a DR scenario.
Granular Restore - File, folder, drive, VM, or mailbox, down to an individual email, contact, or calendar event.
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Monitoring
Guardian’s team monitors backup jobs as part of the managed service. Warnings and failures are routed into Guardian’s ticketing system, and a failed job is retried three times, an hour apart, before a status email is sent.