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Articles and guides on backup architecture, tool comparisons, and lessons learned from real deployments.
Three copies, two media types, one offsite. It sounds like a marketing slogan. It isn't. It's the minimum bar for surviving the three most common failure modes: hardware death, ransomware, and human error. Here's why each number matters and what people get wrong.
Read moreThey solve different problems. Backblaze is cheap cloud storage with predictable egress. Synology is a local appliance that handles NAS duties and tiers to cloud. Most mid-market companies need both. Here's when to reach for which.
Read moreMost backups we audit haven't been tested in months. Some haven't been tested ever. A backup you can't restore is a file. Here are the five things that quietly break and how to catch them before you need them.
Read moreSmall and mid-market companies skip DR planning because it sounds like a nine-figure project. It doesn't have to be. You can get a defensible recovery plan written down in a week, for almost no money, if you're willing to make real choices.
Read moreRestic and Duplicacy are both excellent. They are also not a replacement for a supported product if nobody on your team wants to own the scripting. Here's the honest take on when self-hosted backup tooling wins and when it costs you more than a license.
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