Every business owner believes their data is backed up, right up until the moment they try to restore it and discover the backup was incomplete, corrupted, or hadn't run in months. Data loss from ransomware, hardware failure, or a simple accidental deletion is a "when," not an "if." The question is whether you'll recover in minutes or lose everything.
There's a time-tested standard the pros use to make sure a backup will actually be there when it counts. It's called the 3-2-1 rule.
The 3-2-1 rule, in plain English
- 3 copies of your important data, the original plus two backups.
- 2 different types of storage media (for example, local disk and cloud).
- 1 copy stored off-site, safely away from your office, so a fire, flood, or theft can't take your data and your backup at the same time.
Follow this and no single failure, not a dead drive, not a burst pipe, not a ransomware strike, can wipe out every copy at once.
96% of businesses with a tested backup solution fully recover from ransomware attacks. The keyword is tested.
Why "set it and forget it" fails
Backups quietly break. A drive fills up, a service disconnects, a folder gets renamed, and the job silently stops running. Without monitoring, you won't find out until the worst possible moment. That's why we don't just set up backups, we watch them every day and regularly perform test restores to prove your data can actually come back.
Know your RTO and RPO
Two numbers define real recovery readiness:
- RTO (Recovery Time Objective): how fast you need to be back up and running.
- RPO (Recovery Point Objective): how much data, measured in time, you can afford to lose.
We help you set realistic targets for both, then design a backup and disaster recovery plan that meets them, so "we're down" never means "we're out of business."
Sleep better tonight
Tech Parachute's cloud-based backup and disaster recovery is designed, deployed, monitored, and tested for you. If disaster strikes, you won't be scrambling, you'll be restoring. Let's make sure your safety net is real.