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Why it is important to have a Disaster Recovery plan.<\/h2>\n

A corporate data loss<\/a>, whether due to a breakdown, an environmental disaster, a fire, or a hacker attack (such as ransomware), is in most cases a real disaster for the organization, whose operational halt very often results in a collapse of reputation and turnover.<\/p>\n

That’s why, whatever virtual environment your company uses (Vmware, Hyper-V or other), having a backup of your data available is critical. In fact, being able to rely on a reliable recovery point is the only way to carry out an effective disaster recovery<\/a> that will allow the company to return to operation immediately without any consequences.<\/p>\n

For this to happen in complete safety and efficiency, a good backup strategy, called until recently the “3-2-1 rule” and now evolved, thanks to Veeam Backup & Replication, into the “3-2-1-1-0 rule,” should be followed.<\/p>\n

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3-2-1-1-0 backup rule: what is it?<\/h2>\n

The original “3-2-1 rule” was based on a very simple principle regarding computer data storage, namely that one should always:<\/p>\n