Data ProtectionOct 2026

Backup and Disaster Recovery for Tampa Bay Businesses

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Nessco Tech Services6 min read

A backup strategy has two jobs: protect data from loss, and let you restore it quickly enough to keep the business running. Those are different things.

The 3-2-1 rule is a good starting point:

- Three copies of your data (the original plus two backups).

- Two different media types (for example, local disk and cloud).

- One copy off-site or in the cloud, so a fire, flood, or theft at your office does not take out everything.

Beyond the rule, two metrics matter:

- RPO (Recovery Point Objective): how much data loss is acceptable? If you back up nightly, you can lose up to a day of work.

- RTO (Recovery Time Objective): how quickly must you be back up? Restoring terabytes from a slow connection can take days.

Test restores are the only way to know if your backups actually work. Schedule a test restore at least quarterly, and document how long it took. That time is your real RTO.

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