Disaster recovery and protecting your Intellectual Property

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Updated: 23 July 2026

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What to back up

  • SQL databases
  • Images displayed on your applications webpaces
  • Files which you make available for download.
  • Files which users have uploaded.

Developer best practices

Ensure that your developers do the following:

  1. Maintain an Architectural Decision Records
  2. Use a project management tool e.g. Jira.
  3. Adopt test driven development.
  4. Maintain developer level documentation e.g. Readme file, wikis, deployment instructions.
  5. Push all source code changes to two Git repositories.
  6. Document the deployment procedure.
  7. Non-disclosure agreements.

Accounts

  • Domain name registrar.
  • Nameservers account, often the same as the Domain names registrar but could be different.
  • Google accounts (GTM, Analytics etc.)
  • Webhosting
  • Cloudflare

Third party accounts

payment gateways
APIs
Mailchimp
Agolia
etc.

Cuckoo

Rouge employee removes access for other team members.

Rehearse

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