Deploy and Configure Backup Remotely

Employees are increasingly working from remote locations, thus creating new security vulnerabilities. Monitoring and managing the data generated by these off-site workers is an entirely new challenge as data becomes more widely distributed across home offices, branch locations, and mobile devices.

System administrators must be able to quickly deploy and configure data-protection solutions and initiate backup jobs to help safeguard these endpoints, regardless of where they are connecting from. This includes ensuring that laptops, remote desktops, and other devices are automatically protected without requiring users to take manual action or understand complex backup settings.

Streamlined, Policy‑Based Backup Deployment for MSPs

For MSPs and IT service providers, the stakes are even higher. They need to roll out standardized, policy-based backup for many clients at once—without spending extra time onsite or disrupting end users. Silent, unattended installation and automated configuration are essential to stay efficient, protect margins, and deliver consistent data protection across a distributed client base.

In this section, we’ll show how to silently and automatically deploy and configure backup software at scale, including how to predefine backup destinations, schedules, and retention policies so protection starts immediately. We’ll walk through a practical scenario and demonstration that highlight how this approach reduces manual effort, cuts configuration errors, and helps ensure critical business data is protected from day one.

Recent Trends

All of a sudden, critical data is no longer confined to the corporate network. Line-of-business applications, project files, and even regulated data are now routinely accessed from home offices, shared Wi‑Fi, and mobile hotspots.

As a result, businesses are experiencing significant growing pains as users connect from insecure access points on laptops and other unmanaged or lightly managed devices. Organizations that weren’t prepared with VPNs, multi‑factor authentication, and other layered security measures are now scrambling to catch up—often while systems are already in production.

Predictably, we’re seeing a sharp rise in ransomware and other cybercrime. Attackers are exploiting exposed RDP ports, phishing campaigns, and misconfigured remote access tools. Small businesses are hit especially hard because they make easy targets, often lacking full‑time security staff or mature incident response plans. For them, data loss can mean days of downtime and lost revenue—or even permanent closure or non‑compliance penalties.

MSPs are also facing increased risk as prime cybercrime targets. Compromising a single service provider can open a path into dozens or even hundreds of downstream clients, turning their reputation and client base into powerful blackmail leverage.

In this environment, a robust, policy‑driven backup and recovery strategy—with offsite copies, immutable retention, and fast restore options—has become a core element of both security and business continuity planning, not an afterthought.

Delivery Methods

There are numerous ways in which backup deployment may be performed. NovaBACKUP's installer, for example, can take advantage of Client deployment methods like, Powershell, Active Directory Group Policy, PDQdeploy, or really almost any RMM (Remote Monitoring and Management). Even old-school batch scripting is possible if that's how the sysadmin prefers to roll it out.

What Can Be Accomplished

So, what can we get done during this process? Certainly, install and uninstall backup clients. We can also select many options to be set as defaults within the software. We could configure an editable script for a template backup job using environment variables to schedule the initial backup. We can even run these jobs via the command line. This ability is already built into NovaBACKUP software.

Remote Monitoring and Management

Our Central Management Console gives you the ability to deploy, configure, and monitor NovaBACKUP software remotely. You can create, view, and delete backup jobs remotely to protect new and existing employee or client data (even remote workers). It can be installed locally on your side, and from there, you can manage or create management roles for others to utilize.

It allows you to monitor backups, set up alerts and notifications, review history, and backup logs. You can even add and configure devices. If you are operating as an MSP or IT service provider, our managed backup solution includes Central Management.

Demonstration

Watch as we demonstrate below a scenario in which you would deploy a backup remotely. You can also view the entire webinar here.

You have many choices when it comes to backup software and how you deploy it. In our experience, the ability most desired by system administrators is the flexibility to deploy, configure, and manage data protection in the manner that best suits them.

NovaBACKUP works hands-on with businesses and IT providers to refine their deployment strategy to get backups of critical data taking place wherever it resides. Speak with a data protection expert about deploying your backup solution today.