Enterprise Backup and Recovery

Backing up data and being able to recover it in an acceptable time frame are both crucial to planning your backup infrastructure.

Factors affecting a backup solution -

* DATA
* BACKUP SOFTWARE
* BACKUP SERVER
* INFRASTRUCTURE
* BACKUP TARGET
* BACKUP MEDIUMS

Do you want to be able to do a full backup, incremental or differential?

Backup is not really about backup, it is about restore! Backing data up is an insurance policy!

Understand the backup window and restore performance that you might need.

From autoloader to tape library's, VTL (Virtual tape library's) and beyond! There are many different options and lots of vendors, as is common these days where business IT is concerned.

There are many ways to skin a cat springs to mind!

There are uncertainties in the market where the term Autoloader and Library is actually concerned, and you should know that the Autoloader is being phased out and being changed for a more scalable device which starts with fewer drives but has room to add more.

If you are suffering from a lack of capacity, a lack of performance or both, or inadequate restore performance it is time to think about a new solution to provide a continuation of your "insurance policy".

There are lots of different players where backup solutions are concerned:-

Software to consider:

* SYMANTEC
* QUEST

Hardware To Consider:

* QUANTUM - Tape solutions, D2D, Encryption, advanced management and software suite.
* OVERLAND - NAS, Tape solutions.
* NETAPP - Multi protocol, Wealth of functionality - de-duplication, application aware snapshotting, replication, thin provisioning to name only a few!
* DELL EQUALLOGIC - Stable and popular appliance for SMB which is an iSCSI RAID system with replication and thin provisioning.
* DOTHILL - Kings of R & D, high capacity and high performance RAID systems with a great story to tell.

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A backup solution can be expensive but it is quite simple to work out exactly what specification will suit your needs by understanding what your recovery point objective is and what your recovery time objective is.

RTO - How long is acceptable for the recovery of a backup.

RPO - How old can the data be before the recovery time objective is no longer achievable.

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