Almost every business has a backup. Far fewer have ever tried whether they can really get everything back from it. Yet that is what decides things in an emergency.
The 3-2-1 rule
A proven rule of thumb: three copies of your data, on two different types of storage, one of them off site.
Three questions for your IT
- When was a restore last tested, and did it work?
- How long would it take before your business could work again after a total failure?
- Could an attacker who gets into your network also delete or encrypt the backups?
If you can't answer one of these, that is a good reason to talk. The easiest start is a small test: bring back a single file, and then a whole server, from the backup.
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