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Set up off-site or multi-region backup storage

30-45 min Impact: medium Effort: low ✓ Manual completion

Off-site or multi-region backup storage means at least one copy of your backups lives somewhere genuinely separate from your live site, a different provider or region, so a single provider outage or compromise cannot take out both your production site and your recovery path simultaneously.

A backup stored only alongside your live infrastructure provides no real protection against that infrastructure itself failing or being compromised, genuine separation is what makes a backup a real safety net.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Check where your current backups are actually stored
    Confirm whether they genuinely live somewhere separate from your live site infrastructure.
  2. 2
    Set up storage in a genuinely separate location
    A different provider or region from your primary hosting.
  3. 3
    Configure automatic replication to this separate location
    So this happens consistently without requiring manual effort each time.
  4. 4
    Test recovery from the off-site copy specifically
    Confirm the separated backup is genuinely usable, not just present.

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How you will know it is done

Backups are confirmed stored in a genuinely separate location and have been tested for real recoverability.

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