Server Data Backup & Business Continuity Solutions in Raleigh-Durham
ApexBDR: Enterprise-Grade Protection with Instant Virtualization & 30-Minute Failover
Protect your critical server infrastructure with PTG's proven ApexBDR solution. Our advanced backup and disaster recovery platform ensures your business stays operational even when hardware fails, delivering mirror-image backups, instant server virtualization, and guaranteed recovery in minutes, not hours or days.
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The High Cost of Server Failure & Data Loss
Server failures happen without warning. Hardware malfunctions, ransomware attacks, natural disasters, power surges, and human error can bring your entire business to a standstill in seconds. For businesses in the Raleigh-Durham area, the average cost of server downtime exceeds $5,600 per minute according to industry research, with small to mid-sized companies facing even more devastating impacts as a percentage of revenue.
Beyond immediate financial losses, prolonged server outages damage customer relationships, destroy employee productivity, and create compliance violations that can result in regulatory fines and legal liability. The challenge isn't whether your servers will fail—it's whether you can recover quickly enough to minimize business impact. Traditional backup solutions that require hours or days for restoration simply don't meet the demands of today's always-on business environment.
Many businesses discover too late that their backup systems haven't been working properly, that recovery takes far longer than anticipated, or that critical data wasn't included in backup routines. Without regular testing, geographic redundancy, and modern recovery capabilities like instant virtualization, your backup solution may provide a false sense of security while leaving you vulnerable to catastrophic loss. The question every business leader in Research Triangle Park and throughout the Triangle NC region must ask is: can your organization survive being offline for hours, days, or weeks while you attempt to rebuild your server infrastructure from scratch?
PTG's ApexBDR Solution: Enterprise-Grade Server Protection
PTG's ApexBDR (Backup & Disaster Recovery) platform represents a fundamental shift from traditional backup approaches. Rather than simply copying files to tape or disk, ApexBDR creates complete mirror images of your entire server infrastructure—including the operating system, applications, configurations, patches, and all data—every 15 minutes throughout the business day. These block-level incremental snapshots capture only the data that has changed since the last backup, minimizing bandwidth consumption and storage requirements while maintaining comprehensive protection.
The transformative capability of ApexBDR is instant virtualization. When a physical server fails, we don't spend hours or days restoring data to replacement hardware. Instead, we boot your backed-up server as a fully functional virtual machine on our backup infrastructure within approximately 30 minutes. Your employees can continue working, your applications remain accessible, and your business operations proceed with minimal interruption while we handle the hardware replacement or repair in the background. This dramatic reduction in recovery time—from days to minutes—fundamentally changes the economics and risks of server failure.
Beyond instant virtualization, ApexBDR provides bare metal recovery capabilities that allow complete server restoration to entirely different hardware. Whether you're recovering from catastrophic failure or migrating to new server equipment, the system handles driver injection, hardware abstraction layer modifications, and all the technical complexities of moving your server environment to different physical infrastructure. All backup data is encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption and automatically replicated to geographically separated off-site data centers, protecting against regional disasters like fires, floods, hurricanes, or extended power outages that could affect the entire Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area.
PTG's ApexBDR implementation includes Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) awareness, ensuring application-consistent backups for critical systems like Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and other enterprise applications. This means databases and applications are properly quiesced during backup operations, eliminating corruption risks and ensuring clean restores. With over 22 years of experience protecting businesses throughout Raleigh, Durham, Research Triangle Park, and the broader Triangle NC region, PTG has refined ApexBDR deployment into a comprehensive business continuity solution that goes far beyond basic backup functionality.
Comprehensive Server Backup Features
Block Level Incremental Backups
ApexBDR leverages advanced block-level incremental backup technology that captures only the data blocks that have changed since the previous backup, dramatically reducing backup windows and storage consumption. Running every 15 minutes during business hours, this continuous protection ensures your recovery point objective (RPO) never exceeds a quarter-hour.
Unlike file-level backups that must process entire files even when only small portions have changed, block-level technology identifies and transfers only the modified 64KB data blocks. This efficiency enables frequent backups without overwhelming network bandwidth or storage capacity. All backups are VSS-aware, creating application-consistent snapshots that properly handle open files, active databases, and running applications.
Instant Virtualization
When physical server hardware fails, instant virtualization eliminates traditional restore delays by booting your complete server environment as a virtual machine on PTG's backup infrastructure. Within approximately 30 minutes of failure detection, your server is running, your applications are accessible, and your employees are back to work—all without waiting for hardware replacement or lengthy data restoration processes.
This capability fundamentally transforms disaster recovery economics. Instead of suffering through hours or days of downtime while technicians restore terabytes of data to replacement hardware, your operations continue smoothly on virtualized infrastructure. Meanwhile, PTG handles hardware procurement, configuration, and permanent restoration in the background, eliminating the business disruption traditionally associated with server failures. Instant virtualization converts catastrophic outages into minor incidents.
Bare Metal Recovery
Bare metal recovery enables complete server restoration to entirely different hardware, regardless of processor type, motherboard configuration, or storage controller differences. This capability is essential when original hardware is destroyed, obsolete, or unavailable, allowing seamless migration to replacement servers with completely different specifications.
The ApexBDR system handles all technical complexities including driver injection for new hardware components, hardware abstraction layer modifications, boot sector reconstruction, and partition alignment. Whether you're recovering from catastrophic failure or proactively migrating to new server hardware, bare metal recovery delivers a complete, bootable server environment on different physical infrastructure. The entire server stack—operating system, applications, configurations, patches, and data—is restored exactly as it existed at backup time.
Off-site Replication
All server backups are automatically replicated to secure, geographically separated data centers located outside the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area. This geographic redundancy protects your critical data from regional disasters including fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, extended power outages, or any other event that could impact both your primary location and local backup infrastructure simultaneously.
Off-site replication occurs continuously throughout the business day, ensuring your most recent backups are always available at a secondary location. Data transmission uses encrypted channels with 256-bit AES encryption, and off-site storage facilities maintain SOC 2 Type II certification with multi-layered physical and logical security controls. In a worst-case scenario where your entire facility is destroyed or inaccessible, PTG can restore your complete server environment from off-site replicas, ensuring business continuity regardless of disaster scope.
Exchange Message Recovery
ApexBDR provides granular Microsoft Exchange recovery capabilities that extend far beyond full server restoration. The system supports brick-level recovery, enabling restoration of individual mailboxes, specific folders, or even single email messages without needing to restore the entire Exchange server or storage group. This granular recovery is invaluable for addressing user deletion errors, compliance requirements, or legal discovery requests.
Exchange backups leverage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) integration to create application-consistent snapshots that properly quiesce the Exchange database, ensuring backup integrity and clean restores without corruption risks. Whether you need to recover an executive's accidentally deleted email from three months ago, restore an entire mailbox for a new employee replacement, or provide specific communications for legal discovery, ApexBDR's Exchange-aware capabilities deliver fast, reliable recovery at any granularity level.
Disaster Recovery Testing
Regular disaster recovery testing is essential for validating backup integrity and recovery procedures before an actual emergency occurs. PTG performs scheduled DR tests by virtualizing your server backups in isolated test environments, confirming successful recovery without any impact on production systems. These tests verify that backups are complete, restorable, and will actually work when needed.
Disaster recovery testing identifies potential issues before they become critical, validates recovery time objectives, familiarizes your team with recovery procedures, and provides documented proof of recoverability for compliance and audit requirements. Many organizations discover backup failures only during actual disaster scenarios—when it's too late to fix problems. PTG's proactive testing approach eliminates this risk, providing confidence that your backup solution will deliver when your business depends on it. We recommend quarterly testing at minimum, with documentation provided for each test cycle.
Trusted by Businesses Throughout the Triangle
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919-348-4912PTG has maintained a perfect security record across more than two decades of service, protecting businesses throughout Raleigh, Durham, Research Triangle Park, and the broader Triangle NC region. Our ApexBDR solution has recovered hundreds of failed servers with an average virtualization time under 30 minutes, minimizing business disruption and preventing catastrophic data loss for companies across every industry sector.
Comprehensive IT Services for Complete Protection
Server backup is one component of a comprehensive IT security and business continuity strategy. PTG delivers integrated services that protect your entire technology infrastructure.
RescueIT Off-site Storage
Secure off-site tape storage and rotation services for comprehensive backup strategies and compliance requirements.
Security Assessment
Comprehensive vulnerability analysis and penetration testing to identify security gaps before attackers exploit them.
Network & Computer Support
Proactive monitoring, maintenance, and support services ensuring optimal performance and minimizing downtime.
Network Design & Installation
Expert infrastructure planning and deployment for reliable, scalable, and secure network environments.
Why Choose PTG for Server Backup & Business Continuity
Proven Experience & Expertise
With over 22 years protecting businesses throughout the Raleigh-Durham area, PTG brings unmatched expertise in server backup and disaster recovery implementation. We've successfully deployed ApexBDR solutions for companies ranging from small professional practices to large enterprise organizations, across every industry vertical. Our team holds advanced certifications in backup technologies, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity management.
Unlike generalist IT providers who treat backup as an afterthought, PTG specializes in business continuity and has refined our ApexBDR implementation methodology through hundreds of deployments. We understand the technical nuances, potential pitfalls, and best practices that separate functional backup systems from truly reliable business continuity solutions.
Local Presence, Enterprise Capabilities
As a locally-based Raleigh company, PTG provides the responsive, personalized service that distant national providers cannot match, combined with enterprise-grade technology infrastructure and support capabilities. When you call PTG at 919-348-4912, you reach experienced local technicians who understand Triangle NC business requirements and can be on-site quickly when needed.
Our local presence doesn't mean limited capabilities. PTG maintains enterprise-class data center infrastructure, advanced monitoring systems, and 24/7/365 emergency support capabilities that rival or exceed national service providers. You receive the best of both worlds: local accountability and relationship-focused service backed by enterprise technology and support infrastructure.
Proactive Testing & Verification
Many backup vendors install systems and then provide no ongoing verification that backups are actually working. PTG takes the opposite approach with continuous monitoring, automated integrity checks, and regular disaster recovery testing. We proactively identify and resolve issues before they compromise your protection, rather than discovering problems during actual disaster scenarios when it's too late to fix them.
Our quarterly disaster recovery tests virtualize your backed-up servers in isolated environments, confirming successful recovery and providing documented proof for compliance and audit requirements. This proactive approach eliminates the uncertainty and false security that plague many backup implementations.
Perfect Security Track Record
Over 22 years protecting more than 2,500 companies, PTG has maintained a perfect record with zero security breaches among clients following our security program, zero ransomware infections, and zero data loss incidents for clients with properly implemented ApexBDR solutions. This track record reflects our comprehensive approach to security, continuous monitoring, and commitment to protecting client data with the same diligence we apply to our own business operations.
When you entrust PTG with your server backup and business continuity, you're partnering with a provider that has consistently delivered on our protection promises for more than two decades, across thousands of client companies, without a single security failure. That's the confidence and peace of mind your business deserves.
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Serving businesses throughout Raleigh, Durham, Research Triangle Park, and the Triangle NC region for over 22 years with zero security breaches among clients following our security program across 2,500+ companies.