3-2-1 Backup Strategy Planner

Three copies, two media, one off-site โ€” sized for your actual data, on a schedule you will actually keep.

๐Ÿ‘ค Your account

๐Ÿ’พ The 3-2-1 backup rule

The rule that has saved more photos, businesses and theses than any product: simple enough to remember, strong enough for ransomware.

3๏ธโƒฃ Three copiesYour working files are copy one. You need two more โ€” a single backup is a single point of failure.
2๏ธโƒฃ Two different mediaStore copies on different kinds of storage (e.g. external drive + cloud), so one failure type can't take both.
1๏ธโƒฃ One copy off-siteFire, theft and flood take the house and the drive together. One copy must live somewhere else โ€” cloud counts.

Modern extension โ€” 3-2-1-1-0: one copy offline/immutable (ransomware can't encrypt what it can't reach) and zero errors after a tested restore. A backup you have never restored from is a hope, not a backup.

๐Ÿงฎ Plan builder

Add the data you care about and how big it is. The planner sizes your backup storage and recommends a schedule.

Built a plan above? โ€” then edit the record below to fill in your real drive and cloud service.

๐Ÿ—‚ My Backup Plans

Keep every plan โ€” home, work, family photos โ€” with its devices, schedule and last restore test. Records are saved under your local account (or guest space) on this device โ€” create, view, edit and delete them any time.

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