How I Designed a Layered Backup Strategy for an On-Premises Company Environment

The Problem: Backups Are Not Just an IT Task

Backups are easy to ignore when everything is working. But in a real company environment, data loss does not need to come from a major disaster. Sometimes it is just a failing disk, a user accidentally deleting a folder, or a workstation that needs to be formatted without warning.

In the environment I manage, we had already faced problems like that. User files being lost, shared folders needing better protection, and the most critical risk was our on-premises ERP database. This database stored essential business information, and at the time, we did not have a proper backup/rollback strategy if something serious happened to the server.

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