Important emails disappearing and deleting themselves? September 5, 2019 – Posted in: Backup, News – Tags: Backup

Email is a vital lifeline to our Business.

With us all receiving hundreds of thousands of emails every year – across countless devices, it’s almost too easy to accidentally delete or misfile an email, for it to never be seen again!

With nearly all  industries big or small now relying on email as a formal, (and legally recognised) form of communication, it has never been more important to ensure you never lose anything from your flowing mailbox.

I have seen instances in my career where a client has won a court battle against a supplier, because they were able to produce email evidence of a contractual discussion. The win saved them from a potential £25,000,000 loss. Quite a unique example, however a pertinent one to the importance of access to emails.

So much like your file data, you’d want to ensure your backup is protecting your emails too, right?

So, what do I have to do now?

With the mailbox carrying such a high level of importance to all our livelihoods, we’d best make sure that we can recover every single email, just as easily as our entire file server.

Most entry to mid-level backup services won’t have an extension to backup your email platform. Especially if it’s something complicated like Microsoft Exchange that you are running within your own premises, or, if you are hosting your email within a service such as Microsoft Office 365.

However! There are services that can do this.

What is available to us?

There are a multitude of backup service operators that now support direct integration to backup from, and restore to, email hosting services, (whether that is on premises or within services including Microsoft Office 365).

Every IT professional will have their favourite, as a provider of Managed IT Services we have a few options open to us which we compare to best meet the needs of our individual clients.