Job-site files, copied from the truck
Field laptops back up hourly over any connection, including a hotspot.
Estimates, daily logs and photos are made in the field, on laptops that ride in trucks and sit in trailers. We copy them hourly wherever they connect, and keep closed projects locked off site.
Where field files go missing
Laptops left in trucks
A truck break-in takes the week’s logs. Hourly copies restore to a replacement laptop, targeted within 1 business day.
Thin job-site connections
Trailers run on hotspots and weak signal. The agent sends only changes and catches up when signal returns.
Years of closed projects
Plans, submittals and photos from finished jobs sit on one office NAS. If it fails, they all go together.
Phones and tablets
We do not image phones. Site photos are covered once they reach a synced folder or the office server.
What a contractor usually needs
Workstation Backup
Hourly copies from every field laptop over any internet connection, with 90 days of versions.
Immutable Offsite Copy
A locked copy of the project archive NAS, at least 500 miles from your yard.
Team Sync
Crews and the office open the same drawings, with a nightly backup under the sync.
Recovery Runbook
Written restore steps an office manager can follow on a bad Monday morning.
Office and field, in 90 days
- Days 1 to 5
Map office and field
We list every laptop, tablet and share, and note which crews work from hotspots or weak signal.
- Day 10
First copies, first restore
Field laptops copy hourly and the NAS has a locked offsite copy. We restore one job folder to prove it.
- Each quarter
Drill a field laptop
We restore a full laptop, a mailbox and an archived project, time each, and report within 3 business days.
Questions from contractors, answered
Do laptops need to come back to the office to back up?
No. Each laptop copies its file changes every hour it is online, over any connection: office Wi-Fi, a home line or a job-site hotspot. Only changed blocks are sent, so a weak signal is enough. If a laptop stops checking in, a person sees the missed jobs and follows up the same business day.
What happens when a laptop is stolen from a truck?
Email support@ezbre.com and we restore that person’s files to a replacement laptop, with a target of 1 business day. Because copies run hourly, the loss is usually the last hour of work. If the laptop held sensitive client or employee files, ask your counsel what you need to report.
Can you back up the project archive we keep on a NAS?
Yes. The Immutable Offsite Copy plan adds a locked copy of the NAS in a second US region, at least 500 miles away, from $15 per TB per month. The lock lasts 30 days by default and up to 1 year. If the NAS is your only copy today, Server Backup adds nightly versions too.
Do you back up phones and tablets?
Windows tablets back up like laptops. We do not image phones or iPads; instead, we make sure the photos and forms they capture land in a synced or shared folder that we copy. During the map step we find each place field data is saved, so nothing lives only on a device.
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