Photos, invoices, contracts, customer databases - data is often the most valuable thing a business or household has. And yet many people only deal with backups once it is too late. A disk failure, a stolen laptop or a ransomware attack can wipe out years of work for good.

A backup is not the same as a copy on the same disk

If you keep your data and its “backup” on a single computer, that is not a backup. When the disk fails, you lose both. A real backup is a separate copy on a different device or in a different place.

The 3-2-1 rule

A proven standard that we recommend as well:

  • 3 copies of the data (the original plus two backups),
  • on 2 different types of media (for example an internal disk and an external disk or a NAS),
  • with 1 copy kept off-site - ideally in the cloud or in another location.

This rule protects you against hardware failure, theft and fire all at once.

Automation is key

The best backup is the one you do not have to think about. Set up automatic backups at regular intervals. Copying things manually every now and then usually fails on the human factor.

Test the recovery

A backup only makes sense if the data can actually be restored from it. So test the recovery regularly - at least as a trial. Nothing is worse than discovering during a disaster that the backup has been corrupted for years.

When it is already too late

If you have lost your data and have no backup, all may not be lost yet. In many cases we can perform recovery of lost data from a hard drive, an external disk or a USB stick. The sooner you contact us and stop using the device, the greater the chance of success.