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Practical notes on keeping data safe, for families and for IT teams.
Backing up Tally and the billing PC: a guide for restaurant owners
Where Tally keeps your company data, why a pen drive is not enough, a five-minute daily routine for the manager, and what to do the day the billing PC dies.
Test your restores: an untested backup is a hope
Backups fail quietly. A practical routine for testing restores at home and at work, what to check, how often, and what to write down.
What every restaurant should back up (and how often)
Ledgers, billing data, GST records, supplier bills, aggregator payouts, licences and staff records. A plain list of what a restaurant should back up, where it usually lives, and how often to copy it.
Why keep a backup copy on another continent?
Regional outages, provider risk, latency and data residency: the trade-offs of keeping one backup copy far away, with a different storage provider.
Organising bills, receipts and warranties so you can find them when it counts
Thermal receipts fade, GST invoices get lost and warranty claims need proof. A simple system for Indian households to keep bills findable for repairs and ITR.
How to back up an IMAP mailbox
Step-by-step: back up Gmail, Zoho Mail, Outlook or any IMAP mailbox using app passwords, IMAP sync tools and mbox exports, and keep the copy useful.
RPO and RTO explained
Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective in plain terms, how to pick sensible values, and how they shape your backup design and costs.
Ransomware recovery for small businesses
What to do in the first hours after ransomware hits a small business, how backups decide the outcome, and how to prepare before it happens.
The DPDP Act and where your backups live
An overview of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 as it relates to backups and storage location. General information, not legal advice.
Backing up photos, SMS and WhatsApp: a practical guide for Indian phone users
How to protect the photos, bank SMS and WhatsApp chats on your phone, what each built-in backup covers, and where the gaps are on Android and iPhone.
3-2-1-1-0: immutable backups and verified restores
The extended backup rule adds one offline or immutable copy and zero errors after verification. What each addition means and how to put it into practice.
Backup vs sync: why Google Drive, iCloud and OneDrive are not backups
Sync keeps files identical everywhere, including your mistakes. Backup keeps older copies you can return to. The difference matters when things go wrong.
Why your phone is not a backup
Your phone holds years of photos, chats and documents, but it is one device that can be lost, stolen, dropped or wiped. Here is how to think about it.
What is the 3-2-1 backup rule?
Three copies, two kinds of storage, one copy somewhere else. What the 3-2-1 rule means, where it came from, and the mistakes people make applying it.
