Best Backup and Disaster Recovery Providers in Texas (2026)

Every provider in this market will tell you your data is safe. Almost none of them will tell you how long it takes to get it back.

Hence this list. Backup and disaster recovery is the one managed service where the sales conversation and the delivery reality live furthest apart, because the product only gets tested on a day nobody schedules. So we scored seven Texas providers on what a buyer can check before signing rather than what a buyer discovers afterwards. Published recovery targets. A documented restore testing programme. Immutability controls. Verified client reviews. And how far apart the two copies of your data physically sit, which in a state this size is not a technicality. If you want the underlying service detail rather than the ranking, our Texas data backup services page covers what a managed backup actually protects.

Fourteen made the longlist. Two well-known Texas managed IT firms were cut, and the reason is worth stating up front. Aldridge and IronEdge Group are both credible general providers with real Texas bench strength. Neither publishes a backup or disaster recovery page anywhere in its site navigation. On a general managed IT ranking that means nothing. Here it is disqualifying, which is exactly why a category-specific list beats recycling the criteria from our statewide managed IT ranking.

One more thing first. Texas gives you an unusually clear reason to care, and the interesting number is not the one everybody quotes. Between 1980 and 2024, NOAA counted 190 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters affecting Texas. Severe storms are 66.3% of those events by count and 22.6% of the cost. Sixteen tropical cyclones are 8.4% of the events and 56.9% of the cost. Read that twice. The disasters you live through most often are not the ones that decide whether the business survives, and a backup plan quietly designed around ordinary failures walks straight into that gap without anybody in the room noticing it happen.

How We Ranked These Backup and Disaster Recovery Providers

Full disclosure. We publish this list and we rank first on it. That is a conflict, so the methodology has to survive a competitor reading it line by line. Every figure below came from a live scrape of each provider website, its Google Business Profile and its Clutch profile during the first week of September 2026. No provider submitted data. Nobody paid for placement. The score is the Recovery Proof Score. Here is the whole thing.

Why these weights and not the standard ones

Our general managed IT model puts reviews at 35% and awards at 20%. Both got cut here. Reviews down to 25%, awards folded into a 5% line with longevity. The reason is narrow. A five-star review tells you a provider is pleasant to work with on an ordinary Tuesday. It tells you almost nothing about a Sunday morning bare-metal restore, because the client leaving the review has usually never needed one.

That choice costs us points. Centre Technologies holds the strongest award record here and beats us 10 to 9 on it. It still finishes third. Awards are worth half a point in a ten-point model, and proving a restore is worth three.

Where the recovery criteria come from

Recovery time objective and recovery point objective are not marketing inventions. They are formal terms out of federal contingency planning practice, set out in NIST Special Publication 800-34 Revision 1, the contingency planning guide for federal information systems. A provider that will not name a target is not being cautious. It is refusing measurement.

Testing and immutability criteria come from the same place your cyber insurer got them. CISA is blunt about it in the joint StopRansomware Guide, which tells organisations to maintain offline encrypted backups and to regularly test the availability and integrity of those backups in a disaster recovery scenario. Two instructions. Most providers here satisfy the first. Then they go quiet.

Four disclosures, because you should be able to re-run this

• Cloudtango was dropped from the review factor. The site would not serve a request during this research pass, and a criterion nobody can re-check is not a criterion. Clutch took 55%. Google took 45%.
• The missing Clutch penalty was applied uniformly. Four of the seven providers hold a live Clutch profile carrying zero verified reviews. In each case half the Clutch weight moved to Google and half was lost. Same rule, four times.
• Both Uprite Google profiles were counted. Westheimer sits at 4.8 across 60. Space Center sits at 4.3 across 12. Volume-weighted, that is 4.7 across 72, and it is the number used above. Using the stronger profile alone would have moved us up.
• Founding years use each company own published claim, cross-checked against Clutch. Where the two disagree we say so, including for ourselves. Verify any of it against the Uprite Clutch profile and the equivalent page for anyone else here.

Texas Backup and Disaster Recovery Providers at a Glance

Scores run from 4.2 to 9.1. The spread is wide because the criteria are narrow, and a provider that is excellent at managed IT generally can still score badly here.

The 7 Best Backup and Disaster Recovery Providers in Texas

1. Uprite Services, the one that times the restore and writes the number down

We built this practice around an uncomfortable question. Not whether the backup ran last night, but how many hours it takes to get you trading again, and whether anybody has actually measured it on your systems rather than in a brochure.

Key strengths

• Every restore test is run into an isolated environment, timed, and written down. The monthly report shows the measured restore time for each system rather than the advertised one, which is a small distinction on paper and an enormous one at nine in the morning when somebody senior is asking how long this is going to take.
• We publish arithmetic others avoid. A 10 TB file server pulled back across a 100 Mbps link takes close to twelve days, before anybody reinstalls an operating system or reconnects an application to it. That single table is why every design we build starts with two copies at two distances instead of one cloud target, and why a local appliance still earns its rack space in 2026.
• The offsite copy carries a retention lock that neither we nor an attacker holding your administrator password can shorten.
• Seven consecutive years on the Channel Futures MSP 501, ranked 264 for 2026. A SOC 2 attestation from Assure Professional. A HIPAA Seal of Compliance from Compliancy Group. A 120-day satisfaction guarantee written into every agreement.
• Offices in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, so the second copy sits outside the storm track that threatens the first and, where it matters, on a different stretch of the ERCOT grid.

Worth knowing before you call us

• We do not publish a numeric recovery tier on the website the way Quasar Data Center does. Targets get set per system with your leadership and priced per tier, which is more accurate and a lot less convenient. If you want a number before the first conversation, that is a fair reason to start somewhere else.
• Our Southeast Houston profile on Space Center Boulevard sits at 4.3 across 12 reviews, well below the 4.8 our Westheimer office carries. Both are counted above.
• Clutch says 2008. Our own records and this site say 1999, from the 3coast Services era. We used 1999 and flagged the discrepancy rather than quietly taking the better number.

Best for

Texas companies between 20 and 300 seats that have to show an auditor, an insurer or a customer that a recovery has genuinely been tested.

Not ideal for

A single-site business under ten people shopping for the cheapest cloud-only backup line item. Our design starts with two copies at two distances, and that costs more than one.

Services

Managed backup for servers, endpoints and Microsoft 365. Immutable offsite copies. Recovery design with defined targets. Rapid failover for critical systems. Scheduled restore testing. Retention and legal hold. Documented recovery runbooks.

Industries

Healthcare and dental, manufacturing, legal, financial services, oil and gas, construction, and nonprofits.

Why they rank first

Uprite Services is a Texas managed IT and cybersecurity provider that has worked with small and mid-sized businesses across Houston, Dallas and San Antonio since 1999. The problem we solve here is specific. Nobody has a backup problem. They have a restore problem, and most find out which on the worst morning of the year.

We rank first on what we can be held to, not on what we claim. Four of the seven providers here carry a Clutch profile with no verified reviews on it. Three publish no testing cadence. Only two say on their own website that a target goes in writing before anything breaks. Centre Technologies beats us on awards and Quasar Data Center beats us on published windows, and we still finish 1.2 points clear, because the criteria that decide a bad Monday are testing, immutability and distance. Our Texas disaster recovery practice sets out how the design work runs.

2. Quasar Data Center, the only one that puts a clock on it in public

Quasar will tell you your recovery window before you tell it your name.

Key strengths

• Four published recovery tiers with real numbers on them. Critical systems under 15 minutes to recover and under 5 minutes of data loss. Standard systems, under an hour. File-level recovery under 15 minutes. Individual Microsoft 365 items under 30 minutes.
• It owns the building. The Houston address on Texas Avenue is a data centre rather than a sales office, and colocation sits alongside the managed service.
• Immutable storage, air-gapped offline copies, automated anomaly detection, and integration with endpoint detection so a ransomware event and a recovery are handled as one incident.
• No recovery fees. Transparent pricing with no disaster surcharge, which is exactly the clause people discover at the worst possible moment.

The tradeoff

There is no Clutch profile. The obvious URL returns a 404, which triggers the missing platform penalty in our model and costs Quasar more than any other single thing on this page. Its 22 Google reviews at 4.5 are also the smallest and lowest-rated verified base here. The founding year is not published anywhere. Decades of combined experience is a phrase about people, not about a company.

Best for

Houston businesses that want a contractual recovery window and are comfortable with a facility-led provider rather than a full-service managed IT partner.

Not ideal for

Companies outside the Houston metro who need onsite hands, or buyers who use third-party review volume as a first filter.

Why they rank second

Second place goes to the provider doing the one thing this whole category avoids. Publishing a number a customer can hold you to is a genuinely harder commercial decision than publishing a feature list, because a feature list costs nothing to write and a recovery tier has to be staffed, tested and honoured, and Quasar is alone here in having made it.

3. Centre Technologies, the widest Texas footprint and the fullest trophy case

Offices scattered across four Texas metros? Centre is the only provider here with staff in all of them.

Key strengths

• Staffed offices in Houston, Richardson, Austin and San Antonio, with headcount published per site rather than a service-area map.
• The strongest third-party record on this list by a distance. CRN Triple Crown, CRN MSP 500, CRN Solution Provider 500, CRN Tech Elite 250 and the Channel Futures MSP 501. Its 2026 CRN Pioneer 250 place we checked against the CRN data feed rather than the badge on its own site.
• Retention out to 99 years with immutable copies, alongside a scheduled testing programme it markets as recovery assurance.
• 64 Google reviews at 4.8, the second largest verified base in this group.

Worth knowing

• Its Clutch profile has been live long enough to collect zero reviews. For a firm of 50 to 249 people, that is a conspicuous gap on the platform its own buyers check first.
• Disaster recovery is 10% of its managed services allocation on Clutch. Security is 30%. That is an honest picture of a security-led firm with a backup product rather than a recovery specialist, and there is nothing wrong with it as long as you know which one you are buying.
• The backup page names retention and restore objectives without ever publishing a target. Numbers arrive in a proposal.

Best for

Mid-market Texas firms of 100 seats and up that need one provider across several metros and value enterprise process over speed.

Not ideal for

A 25-person single-site company. You would be the small account in a portfolio built around energy, financial services and manufacturing.

Why they rank third

Centre is the most decorated provider here and finishes third anyway, which is the clearest available test of whether these criteria do what they say. Awards are worth 5%. Proving a restore is worth 30%.

4. Cloudavize, the Dallas shop that names its hardware

Most providers describe their backup platform in adjectives. Cloudavize names it.

Key strengths

• Deploys and manages Synology NAS as the on-site copy, with snapshot replication and secure remote access. A named platform whose specification you can go and read.
• 28 Google reviews at a flat 5.0, and a separate page each for data backup, disaster recovery and continuity planning rather than one catch-all.
• Publishes an IT services pricing page, which is rarer in this market than it ought to be.
• Names the software its clients actually run, including QuickBooks, Sage, Clio, LexisNexis, AppFolio and Yardi. Backup design gets easier when a provider already knows which applications hold their database open all day.

The tradeoff

Founded in 2019. Seven years is not long enough to have carried a client base through a hurricane season, an ice storm and a grid emergency, and that experience is the thing this category is really buying. One Clutch review. Perfect rating, sample of one. Nothing on the site claims immutability or an air gap, which is the control that decides whether a backup survives a modern ransomware crew rather than merely a failed disk.

Best for

Dallas and Fort Worth businesses under 50 seats that want a local team, a named storage platform and a published price.

Not ideal for

Regulated firms needing documented immutability and a tested recovery runbook to hand to an auditor.

Why they rank fourth

Fourth by a tenth of a point, and that gap is not real. Cloudavize wins on review quality and platform transparency, then loses on the two things only time and testing can buy.

5. Integritek, the most backup-weighted practice on this list

Integritek puts more of its managed services business into disaster recovery than anybody else here, and by a distance nobody comes close to.

Key strengths

• 35% of its managed services allocation on Clutch goes to disaster recovery. The next highest is 10%. A published number. Not a claim.
• Real operating detail. 3,500 managed endpoints, more than 150 client businesses, a 98% satisfaction standard, and membership of a peer group of over 100 providers.
• Backup as a service, cloud backup and continuity planning each get their own page, and the continuity page talks about documented procedures instead of products.
• The only Austin headquarters in this group, with 28 Google reviews at 4.6 alongside a 4.9 Clutch rating.

Worth knowing

For a practice this backup-weighted, the pages are strangely quiet on mechanism. No immutability, no air gap, no retention lock, no testing cadence, no recovery targets. Four Clutch reviews, so the rating is excellent and the sample is thin. And one office. If your sites are split between Austin and the Gulf Coast, ask where the second copy physically lives before anything else.

Best for

Austin businesses that want backup and continuity treated as a practice rather than a line item on an invoice.

Not ideal for

Buyers who need immutability and a documented, dated test result for a compliance file.

Why they rank fifth

That allocation figure is the single most interesting data point in this entire research pass, and it is the reason Integritek is on the list at all. The evidence underneath is missing.

6. Velocity IT, the biggest review base and the thinnest recovery detail

Seventy-two Google reviews, every one of them five stars. Then the backup page.

Key strengths

• 72 Google reviews at 5.0, the largest and highest verified base on this list by a clear margin.
• Thirty free days for newcomers. Genuine risk reversal. Rarer than it sounds.
• Local, mirror, cloud and hybrid backup all named, with encryption in flight and at rest.
• Sixteen years in the Dallas market, and a Clutch hourly band of $25 to $49, the lowest here.

The tradeoff

Its Clutch managed services allocation splits evenly across help desk, hosting, network, security and other. Disaster recovery is absent. The backup page promises to define a clear recovery time objective and never suggests what one might be, and assurance testing is a bullet rather than a programme. Zero Clutch reviews. Live profile.

Best for

Dallas small businesses weighting local reputation and price above documented recovery process.

Not ideal for

Anybody who has to hand a tested recovery plan to an auditor or a cyber insurer this year.

Why they rank sixth

The review record is the best on this page and it still only carries Velocity to sixth, because reviews measure how a provider behaves on an ordinary Tuesday.

7. Custom Information Services, the longest run and the narrowest fit

Thirty-seven years in business, and a Clutch profile describing a completely different company from the one on the website.

Key strengths

• Founded in 1989. Nobody else here has been through as many Texas storm seasons, and that counts for something real.
• Disaster recovery pages for Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington and San Antonio, so the geographic intent is more than a service-area checkbox.
• A published pricing calculator, which puts it in a small group on this page.
• Deep ERP and CRM work across Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, NetSuite and Salesforce. That matters when a recovery plan has to bring a finance system back in a specific order.

Worth knowing

Its Clutch service lines read staff augmentation at 30%, then CRM, cybersecurity and ERP at 20% each. Managed IT services do not appear, and neither does disaster recovery. The recovery page asks the buyer good questions about restore times and testing frequency, then commits to nothing on either. Seventeen Google reviews at 4.9. Strong rating, small base.

Best for

DFW companies already running Dynamics or Sage through this firm who want continuity planning from the people who know the application.

Not ideal for

A buyer shopping for a dedicated backup and disaster recovery provider on its own merits.

Why they rank seventh

Last place is not a verdict on the company. It is a verdict on the fit, and the distance between what the website sells to a disaster recovery buyer and what the Clutch profile describes to a procurement team reading the same firm from a different direction is the widest gap we found anywhere in this research pass.

How to Choose a Backup and Disaster Recovery Provider in Texas

If your budget is the constraint

Buy testing before speed. A quarterly timed restore on your three most important systems costs very little and tells you more than any feature comparison ever will. Failover is the expensive tier. Most 30-person companies do not need it on everything. Two systems, and a documented plan for the rest.

If you have multiple sites

Map the metro each system actually lives in. Sounds obvious. It is where the surprises hide. A Houston company replicating to Katy survives a failed server and loses both copies to one hurricane. A Dallas company replicating across town survives a fire and loses both to the same ice storm. Ask the provider to name the city the second copy sits in, and if the answer comes back as a marketing phrase rather than a place, keep asking until somebody says a place. Our Houston recovery planning and Dallas recovery planning pages set out how the risk zones differ.

If you are in a regulated industry

Your auditor wants a dated test result, not a backup report. Different documents. A backup job reporting success has proved that a job ran and nothing else. Ask for a sample restore test report from an existing client, redacted, before you sign anything. Two of the seven here could produce one tomorrow. Ask which.

If ransomware is the thing keeping you awake

Immutability beats everything else combined here, because modern ransomware crews go hunting for the backup repository first and encrypt it long before they touch anything you would notice. Replication will not save you. Encrypt the primary and the replica follows seconds later. Faithfully. Exactly as designed. Working through this specific scenario? Our guide to ransomware recovery in Texas covers the sequence, and the questions to ask a provider about backup give you a script for the sales call.

If you are not sure you need disaster recovery at all

You need less than a vendor will sell you. And more than you have. Start with the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery, because they are separate disciplines and buying one while believing you bought the other is the most expensive mistake in this category. It is also the one that only gets discovered on the day it cannot be corrected.

Pick the Provider That Can Prove the Restore

Seven providers, seven criteria, five points between first and last. The pattern underneath is simple. Nearly everyone here can take a copy of your data. Very few will tell you how long it takes to give it back, fewer still test that claim on a schedule, and only a handful lock the copy so an attacker holding your administrator password cannot quietly delete it a fortnight before the encryption starts.

Want a published recovery window before you talk to anybody? Quasar Data Center is the honest recommendation. Offices across four Texas metros and one enterprise process covering all of them? Centre Technologies is a genuinely strong choice. A Dallas firm under 50 seats wanting a named platform at a published price? Cloudavize will serve you well.

If what you need is a recovery time you have watched being met, on your own systems, written down every month, that is our work. Start with what would actually happen tomorrow morning.

What Texas Buyers Ask Before They Choose

What should backup and disaster recovery cost for a 50-person Texas company?

Our backups run nightly and every report says success. Is that enough?

How far away does the second copy actually need to be?

Nobody will give us a recovery time before we sign. Is that normal?

Is Microsoft 365 already backed up by Microsoft?

How quickly can we move backup to a new provider mid-contract?