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Backup & Recovery
Backups that actually restore: testing, cloud versus local, and what happens on the worst day. 4 questions, answered in plain English.
- How often should our backups be tested?Backups should be verified automatically every day and test-restored on a regular schedule, because an untested backup is a hope, not a plan. Ask your provider when they last actually restored your data.
- Is cloud backup actually secure? I'm nervous about my data sitting in someone else's cloud.Reputable business cloud backup encrypts your data before it leaves your building and keeps it encrypted at rest, and its off-site, immutable nature is precisely what defeats ransomware. The realistic risk isn't the cloud; it's having no tested backup at all.
- Why do I need cloud backup? I back up to an external drive every day.An unmonitored, untested backup is a hope, not a backup. Manual routines get skipped, drives fail silently, ransomware encrypts anything plugged in, and a fire or theft takes the drive with the computer. Automated, monitored, off-site backup fixes all four at once.
- I do not need backups. There is nothing important on my computer; everything is on the web.The backup is not just for files; it is for getting back to work. A full system backup restores your programs, settings, and configurations in hours instead of the days it takes to rebuild a machine from scratch. And the web data you rely on has its own backup question worth asking.
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