Cloud Backup Solutions: What Actually Fits a Small Nepali Business

Cloud backup gets over-complicated in vendor pitches aimed at enterprise budgets. Most small businesses need something much simpler.

What actually needs backing up

Customer records, financial data, and anything that would genuinely hurt the business to lose — not every file on every machine. Prioritizing reduces both cost and complexity.

Automate it — manual backups don't happen reliably

A backup that depends on someone remembering to run it manually will eventually be missed at the worst possible time. Automated, scheduled backups remove that human failure point entirely.

Off-site is non-negotiable

A backup stored in the same building as the original data doesn't protect against fire, theft, or building-level incidents — the whole point of backup is surviving a local disaster.

Test restores periodically

As with any disaster recovery plan, an untested backup is a hope, not a guarantee. Schedule a periodic test restore to confirm it actually works.

Not sure your current backup setup would actually save you in a real incident? Let's review it together.