Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery in Orange County
Encrypted backup for the data your business runs on, with the most recent 30 days locked against change or deletion. Servers and Microsoft 365 are backed up at least daily, and computers through the day while they’re online — stored in our Southern California datacenter held to published standards and copied to our second site.
Hosted environments get disaster recovery included, with an 8-hour recovery target; Rapid recovery is a published option.
Your backups live on infrastructure we own
Many providers resell someone else’s storage and hope the copy is good. We keep your protected data on infrastructure we own inside a Southern California datacenter held to published standards, with a second site we operate for replication and recovery. When you need it back, accountability ends with us.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest — the most recent 30 days locked against change or deletion, older restore points under separate credentials
- Monitored around the clock, with alerts on every backup job
- Server restores tested at least once a quarter, with the results available to you
What we back up
Three coordinated backup layers protect every place your data lives — on-premises, in the cloud, and on the devices your team carries.
Backup is only half the job: it keeps your data. Hosted environments get disaster recovery included, with an 8-hour recovery target from our second site. Need faster? Rapid recovery keeps hourly copies ready, with a 4-hour target ($175 per server + $75 per TB a month). All recovery times are targets, tested every year, not guarantees.
Server Backup
Local and cloud backup for physical, virtual, and legacy systems, at least daily. An initial full snapshot is followed by efficient incremental backups, kept in encrypted storage. If an office server fails, we can run it from our private cloud while it’s repaired (terms below).
PC Backup
Backup through the day while the computer is online, built for remote and hybrid work. Laptops and desktops are protected against loss, theft, and ransomware without anyone remembering to hit save.
Disaster Recovery & Rapid Recovery
Hosted environments: a nightly copy at our second site, ready to start, with an 8-hour recovery target, included. Need a faster, tighter recovery? Rapid recovery copies each server every hour and keeps it ready to start, with a 4-hour target and a documented failover test every year, at $175 per server + $75 per TB a month.
Email & Collaboration Backup
Cloud email platforms don’t fully back themselves up. We automatically protect mailboxes, attachments, calendars, contacts, and shared collaboration data — recoverable even after a deletion. Microsoft 365 backup is included on Secure IT, with one-year retention.
When an office server fails. We can start it in our private cloud from your latest backup while it’s repaired or replaced, with up to 30 days of running there included each year, then our hosted server rates apply. Moving it back to your office, and recovery after a security incident, are quoted project work. Microsoft licensing for that time is billed separately if the server’s own licenses don’t allow it; licenses that came with the server usually don’t.
What you get with every backup plan
Backup is a discipline, not a checkbox. Here’s what’s built into the service:
| Capability | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Automated backup | Routine, hands-off data preservation on a schedule — no manual steps to forget |
| Encrypted storage | Strong encryption in transit and at rest, with the most recent 30 days locked against change or deletion |
| Customized plans | Right-sized, cost-effective protection matched to your systems and recovery goals |
| PC backup through the day | Computers are backed up through the day while they’re online. Servers and Microsoft 365 are backed up at least daily. |
| Easy recovery | Straightforward restores with minimal downtime — individual files or whole systems |
| Retention you choose | One, three, five, seven or ten years — one year is our recommendation; longer periods match what your regulator or insurer requires |
| Monitoring & notifications | Continuous monitoring with alerts on backup status and any failure, caught before you need it |
Except for backup through the day, which is PC backup, these apply to every backup layer above, from PCs, Macs, Linux and virtual machines to legacy systems and your mailboxes. Microsoft 365 backup is included on Secure IT and a published per-user add-on on Core IT — see Microsoft 365 management and backup.
Disaster recovery, not just backup
A backup answers “do we still have the data?” Disaster recovery answers the harder question: “how fast can we operate again?” Hosted environments are copied to our second site every night and kept ready to start there, with an 8-hour recovery target; Rapid recovery keeps hourly copies ready, with a 4-hour target. For backup alone, we give you written recovery targets after the first restore test. Every recovery time is a target, tested every year, not a guarantee.
Our infrastructure runs in a Southern California facility engineered to a concurrently maintainable design, whose operator holds SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II attestations, ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS certifications and NIST 800-53 (PE) High alignment, with N+1 redundant power and cooling. The 99.9% uptime service level on hosted systems is a CRC Cloud commitment.
Facility credentials — held by the datacenter operator, not by CRC Cloud:
CRC Cloud’s own: 99.9% uptime commitment
Tour the datacenter behind your backups →A published add-on on either plan
Cloud backup is a published add-on on either the Core IT or Secure IT plan — Secure IT includes Microsoft 365 backup at one-year retention, and server and endpoint backup carry their own published rates. Cloud Complete adds disaster recovery — a nightly copy of your environment at our second site, in a separate access-controlled building in the same region — on infrastructure we own (live, continuously synchronized twins are the Multi-Cloud option at +15% on hosted lines). Replication is not backup, and backup stays billed at the published per-server rates either way. Not sure which fits? See every published rate →
Server and data backup across Southern California
The same backup service, at the same published prices, wherever your offices are. Each region page shows how cloud services and backup fit the businesses there.
- Orange County — from our Newport Beach headquarters, with on-site support in every Orange County city
- Los Angeles County — Los Angeles, Long Beach, the South Bay and the San Fernando Valley
- San Diego County — San Diego, Carlsbad, Solana Beach and Escondido
- The Inland Empire and the desert — Riverside to Temecula, Palm Springs and the Morongo Basin
Backup is managed remotely for every client, wherever they are. When on-site help is needed, it is included within 175 driving miles of Newport Beach.
Backup, explained in about a minute
What encrypted, off-site, locked backup looks like when it’s done properly — straight from our channel.
Cloud backup, asked and answered
What does CRC Cloud’s cloud backup include?
Three backup layers: server backup for physical, virtual, and legacy systems; PC backup through the day while computers are online, for laptops and remote workers; and email and collaboration backup for mailboxes, attachments, calendars, and contacts. Rapid recovery, for faster recovery of critical servers, is a published option. Everything is encrypted, stored in our Southern California datacenter held to published standards, and copied to our second site.
What’s the difference between backup and disaster recovery (DRaaS)?
Backup makes protected copies of your data. Disaster recovery brings your systems back online after an outage, hardware failure or ransomware event. Hosted environments get disaster recovery included, with an 8-hour recovery target from our second site; Rapid recovery keeps hourly copies ready, with a 4-hour target. A server in your office can be started in our private cloud from your latest backup, with 30 days of running included each year; moving it back, and recovery after a security incident, are project work. All recovery times are targets, tested every year, not guarantees.
Are backups encrypted and protected against ransomware?
Yes. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. The most recent 30 days of restore points are locked so nobody can change or delete them, ransomware or anyone else, even with admin rights, and older restore points stay encrypted under separate credentials. Computers are backed up through the day while they are online, so a compromised device can be rolled back to a clean point rather than lost.
Do you back up cloud email and collaboration files?
Yes. Cloud email and collaboration platforms are not fully backed up by the provider by default, so we add automated backup of email, attachments, calendars, contacts, and shared files. If an account is deleted or a mailbox is compromised, the data is still recoverable.
How long do you keep our backups?
Retention of one, three, five, seven or ten years, each at a published rate. One year is our recommendation; longer periods match what your regulator or insurer requires.
How do you know a backup will actually restore?
Because we test it. Backups are monitored, with alerts on status and failures, and recovery is verified on a schedule instead of assumed. A backup you have never restored is a guess, not a plan.
