The Backup Journal is an independent, vendor-neutral desk covering backup strategy and disaster recovery. It exists because most data loss is not a technology problem — it is an untested-restore problem.
Every plan on the wall is filed the same six ways: scope, strategy, retention, restore time, offsite requirement, and cost band. That shared schema lets you compare a cloud tier, a local drive, and a tape rotation on the same terms instead of taking a marketing claim at face value.
Our editors lean on long-standing industry guidance such as the 3-2-1 (and its 3-2-1-1-0 extension) rule and the RPO/RTO vocabulary, and we frame everything as general education. We do not name or rank specific backup product vendors, and we make no promises about any particular recovery outcome.