Disaster recovery, in plain terms
A disaster recovery plan answers two questions before anything goes wrong: how much work can you afford to redo, and how long can you afford to be down. Backora is the part of that plan that keeps a usable, off-site copy ready.
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
How much data you can afford to lose, measured in time. If you back up daily, your RPO is roughly a day: anything changed since the last backup is at risk if something happens now.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
How long you can afford to be without your data. Restoring from Backora depends on how much data you are restoring and your connection speed — there is no fixed number, and this page will not invent one.
The 3-2-1 idea
Keep at least three copies of important data, on two different kinds of storage, with one copy off-site. Backora is naturally the off-site, third copy: your working files are one, a local backup or external drive can be the second kind, and Backora's encrypted cloud copy is the one that survives a disaster at your desk.
Where Backora fits, and where it stops
It gives you a verified, versioned, off-site copy and a way to restore it to the same or a replacement computer. It is not an automatic failover system, does not restore a full server image, and does not fail traffic over to a backup site on its own — pair it with whatever plan covers those, if your business needs them.
Questions about disaster recovery
Is Backora a full disaster recovery solution on its own?
It is one important part of one: an off-site, verified, versioned copy you can restore from. A complete plan for a business with strict uptime needs may also need failover infrastructure Backora does not provide.
How do I test that recovery actually works?
Restore a folder you do not otherwise need, to a location you choose, and check the files. There is nothing special to set up first — it is the same restore flow used every day.
Can I restore onto a computer that is not the one that made the backup?
Yes. Sign in on the replacement computer and choose to restore another computer's backup onto it.