16 June 2026
3-2-1 is the floor, not the goal. In 2026 it's already obsolete. Three copies, two media, one offsite was written before ransomware learned to sit dormant for 90 days, then encrypt your backups before your live data. The…
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15 June 2026
A backup on the same server is not a backup. It's a coin flip. If the disk that holds your site also holds your only copy, you have one failure point pretending to be two. RAID is not a backup either. RAID survives a dea…
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14 June 2026
Run a full disaster simulation once a year, lights out, no cheating Monthly restores test backups. A DR drill tests YOU under pressure. The exercise: — Pick a day, declare prod "destroyed," do not touch it — Rebuild on f…
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13 June 2026
Database-only backups are how affiliates lose six months of work overnight. Your mysqldump is gorgeous. Now restore it onto a box with no uploads folder, no theme files, no .htaccess, no config — and watch your site stay…
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13 June 2026
Encrypting your backups is great until you realize the key was only on the dead server. Everyone gets the memo: encrypt your offsite backups. Good. Then the prod box dies, and the decryption key lived in the .env on that…
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