backups for a photo studio

Two-factor on the registrar account is the single highest-value thing we do for a photo studio when managing backups. Everything else can be rebuilt; a stolen domain cannot.

If the hours on Google disagree with the site, people trust Google and then arrive angry. backups will not fix that. The hours page will.

We document backups in a shared spreadsheet. It is not glamorous, but a photo studio can open it on their phone at midnight if something breaks.

The owner at a photo studio asked why backups matters. We showed them the error page their customers see when it breaks. That ended the conversation.

We have seen agencies charge a photo studio for a yearly backups audit that consists of a screenshot and a paragraph. Ours is a working config file they can apply themselves.

Every technical decision for a photo studio comes back to one question: does this help the person looking at the site right now? If backups is invisible to that person, it is working.

We check backups for a photo studio once a quarter. It takes five minutes and has caught two problems in the past year. Both would have caused downtime within a week.

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