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# WHITEPAPER

# Essential Guide to Backup

# For MSPs

Backup best practices and tips on how to protect your customers’ sensitive data

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## About Whitepaper

Data losses can happen at any time. The only way to protect your customers’ sensitive data fully is to provide them with comprehensive backup and recovery plans.

In this guide, we offer tips and best practices to help MSPs decide where to store backup data and how to tailor backup plans to different types of systems.

We cover everything you need to know to plan an efficient backup strategy, including:

- Overview of **data types, backup types** and **backup methods**
- **Backup destinations** to choose: local storage, offsite storage and mixed approach
- Backup best practices specific for **different IT systems**: file servers, databases, virtual machines
- **A quick summary of backup best practices for virtually all backup scenarios**

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