Hardware fails, laptops get dropped and ransomware happens. The 3-2-1 rule is the simplest way to make sure none of those become a disaster.
3 copies of your data
Your live data plus two backups. If one copy fails, you still have another.
2 different types of storage
For example a local NAS and cloud storage — so a single fault can’t take out both.
1 copy off-site
Fire, flood or theft at the office shouldn’t touch at least one of your backups.
Don’t forget to test
A backup is only as good as your last successful restore. We recommend test restores at least quarterly, and monitoring every backup job so failures are caught the same day.
Not sure your backups tick all three boxes? Our business continuity team can review them for you.