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LME Services

Business Backup & Disaster Recovery Services | Chicago, IL

Business Backup & Disaster Recovery

Don’t find out your backups don’t work during a disaster.

Automated, offsite backups and a disaster recovery plan you’ve actually tested — so a server crash, ransomware attack, or human error doesn’t turn into a business-ending event.

Why backups alone aren’t enough

A backup you’ve never tested restoring isn’t a backup plan — it’s a guess.

Automated, offsite backups

Your data is backed up on a schedule you don’t have to think about, replicated offsite so a fire, flood, or hardware failure at your office can’t take everything with it.

Tested recovery, not just backup

We periodically test actual restores — not just confirm a backup job “completed” — so you know it will work when you need it.

A real disaster recovery plan

Documented recovery time and recovery point targets, in plain language, that you’ve reviewed before you ever need them — not improvised at 2am during a ransomware event.

What’s included

Coverage for the disasters that actually happen.

  • Automated daily backups of servers, workstations, and cloud data
  • Offsite / cloud replication
  • Ransomware-resistant, versioned backups
  • Documented recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
  • Periodic test restores
  • Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace backup (not just on-prem servers)
Who needs this most

Especially critical if you’re in a regulated industry.

Legal, accounting, healthcare, and financial services businesses face real compliance exposure if client data is lost or unrecoverable. A tested backup and disaster recovery plan isn’t optional overhead — it’s part of how you protect your clients and your license to operate.

What our clients say

Real businesses, real relationships.

“When Joe assigned Ivan as our lead, we felt like we finally had IT solved. Ivan has been with us 24×7 and the team behind him makes sure nothing falls through the cracks.”

David Schuelke
David Schuelke
CEO, Spring Bank Wisconsin

“Thanks to LME Services’ efforts, our workflow issues are finally resolved. We’ve worked with other IT companies but they lacked the oversight we needed. Leon and his team collaborate seamlessly with us and make sure we know someone cares.”

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Travis Penfield
CEO, 49 Financial
Frequently asked

Common questions about backup & disaster recovery

How is this different from just backing up to an external drive?

An external drive is a single point of failure sitting in the same building as everything else you’re trying to protect. Our backups are automated, versioned, and replicated offsite, and we actually test that they restore.

Do you back up Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, not just servers?

Yes. Cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace don’t fully protect you from accidental deletion or ransomware on their own — we back up that data separately.

What’s the difference between a backup plan and a disaster recovery plan?

A backup is the data. A disaster recovery plan is the documented, tested process for actually getting your business back online — including how long it takes and what order systems come back up in.

Can you help if we already have backups but aren’t confident in them?

Yes — that’s one of the most common things we’re asked to review. Start with a free 15-minute assessment and we’ll tell you honestly where you stand.

Don’t wait for a disaster to find out your backups don’t work.