--- title: "Which Backup Strategy is Best? - Blogs on IT Support and Cybersecurity for Small Business" description: "Keeping Your Strategy SimpleOne basic strategy to sorting out your data is to backup the files that you can’t feasibly replace otherwise. This simple, yet effective approach could easily save your business… but, why go through the effort of sorting t" url: "https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/which-backup-strategy-is-best" date: "2026-06-07T04:02:10+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- ## Blogs on IT Support and Cybersecurity for Small Business Insights on cybersecurity, AI, and IT strategy to help business leaders reduce risk, improve performance, and make better technology decisions. [ Categories ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories "Categories") [ Tags ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags "Tags") [ Categories: All Categories ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0); "Categories") Search...Suggested keywords [ x ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) # Which Backup Strategy is Best? [Coleman Technologies Blog](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/blog) [Business](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/business) [Coleman Technologies Admin](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman) Friday, 15 November 2019 ## Keeping Your Strategy Simple One basic strategy to sorting out your data is to backup the files that you can’t feasibly replace otherwise. This simple, yet effective approach could easily save your business… but, why go through the effort of sorting through your data at all? Seeing as your data is one of - if not *the* - most important resources that your business has, why not just back up all of it? This endeavor becomes much easier with the Backup and [Disaster Recovery](https://www.colemantechnologies.com/news-events/forbes-coaches-council/ "Disaster Recovery") appliance that we offer, as it can easily map out and replicate your data stores. Now, it must be said that not every business generates enough vital data to justify a large investment into a data backup. However, as we mentioned above, today’s threat landscape means that what data you do have needs to be protected. ## Your Backup Options There are several different varieties of data backup for you to consider, keeping in mind what it is you are backing up and when you need those backups to be ready. These backups include: ### Full Backups As you may have gathered, a full backup copies all of your data and configurations and saves them to a single platform, whether that be a NAS (network attached storage) device, a [cloud](https://www.colemantechnologies.com/download-cloud-whitepaper/ "cloud") backup, or tape (pro tip: don’t use tape backup). This has the benefits of offering a comprehensive backup that you need, with quick restoration times for single files or folders. A full restore takes a much longer period of time to complete, and full backups are more expensive due to the greater need of storage space. Any backup strategy will typically start off with a full backup. ### Incremental Backups This kind of backup keeps track of any changes that are made to data, which allows it to be used for data that is continuously updated. The costs of an incremental backup are quite reasonable, making it a good choice (despite not being totally comprehensive) for a business that generates large amounts of data. ### Differential Backups Similarly to incremental backups, a differential backup keeps track of changes that are made between the times that a full backup is run, keeping their backups more up to date. ### Mirror Backup This kind of backup is best for redundancy, as it creates a mirror image of the system that is being backed up. While these backups are the fastest to restore, they also take up the most storage space. Depending on your business’ particular needs, a backup can be run weekly, daily, or even as frequently as every 15 minutes. ## Following the 3-2-1 Rule The 3-2-1 Rule is a simple way to remember what you need to maintain if you want to keep your data protected enough. Here’s how it breaks down: - 3 copies of your data - 2 stored on different media types - 1 copy offsite This strategy makes it so your data is both secure, and convenient to you. To learn more about data backups and best practices concerning them, reach out to COMPANYNAME at PHONENUMBER. [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) Tags: [BDR](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags/bdr) [Data Backup](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags/data-backup) [Data Recovery](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags/data-recovery) [×](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) Stay Informed When you subscribe to the blog, we will send you an e-mail when there are new updates on the site so you wouldn't miss them. 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