UK Cloud Backup Services in Our Sheffield Data Centre

Our UK cloud backup pricing starts at £14.00 per TB per month, billed in 1TB increments so you only pay for what you actually use. Storage sits on our Ceph cluster in our ISO 27001 Sheffield data centre with end-to-end encryption on by default. Veeam Cloud Connect licences may be required if you're connecting Veeam Backup & Replication directly. We can also bundle the licences and the management as a fixed monthly fee under Managed Backup Services if you'd rather not run the backups yourself.

A local backup protects you against a single failed drive, but not against fire, flood, theft, ransomware that encrypts the local network, or accidental deletion that the local backup quietly overwrites before anyone notices. UK cloud backup gives you an offsite copy that survives all of those, in our ISO 27001 Sheffield data centre, with end-to-end encryption so the data is safe even from us. Most UK businesses end up running both: local for fast restores of recent files, cloud for everything else and for disaster recovery.

As often as you can afford to lose the changes between backups. For most UK SMEs, nightly is the sweet spot: simple, runs out of hours, limits worst-case data loss to one day. Businesses with high transaction volume (e-commerce, finance, healthcare) usually run hourly incremental backups during the working day on top of nightly full backups. The faster your data changes, the more frequent your backups need to be. We can size and quote against your specific tolerance for data loss (your RPO, recovery point objective).

In our own ISO 27001 Sheffield data centre, on our Ceph cluster, with end-to-end encryption on by default. UK-resident, UK-managed by our own engineering team. No AWS or Azure region puzzles, no overseas data hops. Worth knowing if you're subject to GDPR, ICO requirements, or any sector that needs evidence of where customer data physically lives. Replication to our second UK data centre is available for offsite redundancy.

Anything that can write to a Windows or Linux mount, an S3 endpoint, or via rsync over SSH. Customers run Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Agent, Acronis Cyber Backup, Macrium Reflect, Duplicati, restic, Borg, Windows Server Backup, plain rsync scripts, and Microsoft 365 backup tools. If your tool can talk to a network share or an S3 endpoint, it will work. If you'd rather we ran the backup software for you, see our Managed Backup Services.

Recovery speed depends on your data volume and your network speed to our Sheffield data centre. For individual file restores, expect minutes. For a full server image, expect hours rather than days. For mission-critical workloads where downtime is expensive, we can build in replication and warm standby copies in our second UK data centre to bring recovery time down to minutes. We'll size and quote against the recovery targets you actually need.

Yes. Microsoft 365 backup is one of our most-requested services. Microsoft retains your data for limited periods and does not protect against accidental deletion, malicious deletion, ransomware, or staff lockout. We back up Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams to our Sheffield Ceph cluster with point-in-time restore. Pricing is per-user, per-month. See our Microsoft 365 Backup page for the full spec.

End-to-end encryption is on by default, with TLS in transit and AES-256 at rest. You hold the encryption keys, so we cannot read your data even if we wanted to. Physical security includes two-factor access control, internal and external CCTV, smoke, fire and intruder alarms, all in our ISO 27001 certified facility. Network access is filtered, and we run our own IP ranges with BGP peering across multiple Tier 1 carriers.

Yes. We work with managed service providers and IT consultancies who resell our UK cloud backup to their own customers. You get wholesale pricing, your own multi-tenant repository on our Ceph cluster, separate accounts for each end customer, and white-label reporting. Talk to us about MSP terms and we'll size a package that lets you compete on price without giving up margin.

Three differences matter most. First, data sovereignty: your backups stay in the UK, in a single physical location you can audit, not spread across AWS regions. Second, pricing predictability: no egress fees, no per-request charges, no surprise bills, just per-TB per month. Third, support: you talk to the engineers who run the storage when you need a recovery, not a ticket queue. Public cloud works well for some workloads, just usually not backup.