Best Practices: The 3-2-1 Backup Rule
3 copies of your data: 1 primary and 2 backups.
2 different types of media: e.g., local drive and cloud.
1 copy off-site: Ensures protection from local disasters.
Even if you have the data it is still going to be a pain to reconstruct the year of accounting.
> Best Practices: The 3-2-1 Backup Rule
> 3 copies of your data: 1 primary and 2 backups.
> 2 different types of media: e.g., local drive and cloud.
> 1 copy off-site: Ensures protection from local disasters.
I’m doing 3 and 2 but not offsite hard drive. I should probably put a copy in my bank’s safety deposit box.
I have a local drive backup and online with both Dropbox and Google Drive.
This might be overkill as I’m just a person and not a business.
But this is why I don’t trust online apps that have recently popped up or are so small they may not last.
And one off-site location capable of running the company for a period of time.
Conduct drills falling back onto the offsite backup location using the media you described.
Have done accounting since 1957.
WOULD NEVER STORE ANY OF MY RECORDS OFF SITE.
HAD MY OWN SOFTWARE TO DO BOOKKEEPING FOR OTHERS-—AND THEY STORED THEIR OWN COPIES.
When I was done with a client-—I deleted their data.
I have PAPER records of my own back over 50 years. DOESN’T take that much room to store them.