By Editorial Team · 18 September 2026
A green tick on a backup dashboard confirms that a job ran. It does not confirm that your business can recover.
Good recovery practice has three parts: agreed recovery objectives, copies that survive the failure modes you actually face, and regular tests that prove it works.
Start by agreeing a recovery time objective and recovery point objective for each system with the people who rely on it. Keep at least one copy offsite and immutable, so ransomware cannot encrypt it. Then schedule a restore drill, time it, and write down what went wrong.
The first drill almost always finds a gap. Better to find it on a Tuesday afternoon than during an incident.
