If every copy of your files sits in one building in Muscat, one bad day can take all of them: a failed NAS, ransomware on the shared drive, or water in the server room. Skyline Backup sends an encrypted copy of your computers, NAS and Microsoft 365 or Google Drive files to a vault in Riyadh every night, and lets you restore any file by date without calling anyone.
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300 SAR per TB a month, about 30.760 OMR. No per-device fee.
Most of Oman's companies sit along the coast, from the Batinah through Muscat to Sur, with Salalah in the south. That coast has seen what weather can do: Cyclone Gonu in 2007 and Cyclone Shaheen in 2021 both caused serious flooding and damage. A backup drive on the shelf next to the server, or a NAS in the same office, shares the same building, the same power and the same flood risk.
The old rule of thumb still holds: keep three copies of what matters, on two different kinds of storage, with one copy somewhere else. For an Omani office, "somewhere else" in another country is about as far as a copy can be from local trouble while staying in the Gulf.
Weather is only part of it. Ransomware is the more common cause of lost files, and it encrypts every drive it can reach, including a backup disk that stays connected. A cloud copy that the infected PC cannot overwrite is what lets you restore yesterday's files instead of negotiating.
| Source | How you connect it |
|---|---|
| Windows PCs and servers | Download the installer from the console and run it; choose folders from the console |
| Linux machines | Paste one command from the console |
| Synology and Linux-based NAS | Enable SSH, paste one command; shared folders are offered for protection |
| OneDrive and SharePoint | An administrator signs in with Microsoft and grants read-only access |
| Google Drive | Sign in with Google and grant read-only access |
Data is encrypted before it leaves the device, and after the first run only changed data is sent, so nightly backups stay small even on a modest office connection. Restores are done in the console: open the device, pick a date, browse the folders as they were and download a file or a folder.
Take a typical engineering consultancy in Muscat: 15 laptops with about 20 GB of work files each, a Synology NAS holding 500 GB of project archives, and SharePoint libraries of around 150 GB. That is roughly 950 GB, so one terabyte of reserved capacity covers it today.
| Reserved capacity | SAR / month (excl. VAT) | About OMR / month | About OMR / year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 TB | 300 | 30.760 | 369.120 |
| 2 TB | 600 | 61.520 | 738.240 |
| 5 TB | 1,500 | 153.800 | 1,845.600 |
Because there is no per-device fee, adding the five new laptops next year costs nothing until the total outgrows the capacity. The OMR figures are approximate conversions; billing is in SAR. See how we convert.
A backup in Riyadh is, by design, outside Oman. For most company files that is exactly what you want. For personal data, check first. Oman's Personal Data Protection Law, issued by Royal Decree 6/2022, has been in force since February 2023, and banks, healthcare and public-sector suppliers may have their own sector rules. We do not interpret Omani law; your adviser or regulator does. What we can give them is precise: the vault is in Saudi Arabia, data is encrypted before upload, and restores are done by your own administrators.
If something has to stay inside Oman, keep its backup there too, and use Skyline for everything else. For a primary system that must be in the country, see local servers in Oman, on request.
A backup nobody has restored from is a hope, not a plan. Read the full product detail on the Skyline Backup page, and if the servers you are protecting live with us, the Riyadh VPS page explains how they fit together.
In Skyline's backup vault in Saudi Arabia, on storage kept separate from the servers that run websites and mailboxes. That means your copy is outside Oman, which is the point of an off-site copy, and also something to check against any rule that applies to your data.
300 SAR per terabyte of reserved capacity per month, about 30.759 OMR, excluding VAT where it applies. There is no per-computer or per-user fee: connect as many devices as fit in the capacity you reserved.
Windows computers and servers, Linux machines, Synology and other Linux-based NAS devices, and Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint document libraries and Google Drive. Websites on Skyline hosting already have their own daily backups.
No. It backs up files and folders that you choose, and restores them by date. It does not take bootable images of whole machines, so keep installation media and licence keys for your systems somewhere safe.
No. An administrator signs in with Microsoft or Google and grants read-only access to the files. Skyline never sees the password.
We cannot answer that for you. Oman's Personal Data Protection Law (Royal Decree 6/2022) is in force, and some sectors and contracts have their own requirements. Ask your legal adviser or regulator; we can tell them exactly where the data sits and how it is encrypted.
The Reports page counts backups that actually ran. A device that has never completed a backup is shown in red, and one that has gone more than a week without a backup is flagged.
Install the agent on one PC, connect the NAS, and run your first restore drill. Opening the account needs no card; backup capacity is billed per terabyte when you reserve it.
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