Data Backups just don't cut it anymore...

Hey All - this is Lynn Shourds, President & CTO of HEROware. According to a recent article from Gadget.com, "...Although most companies recognize the necessity of disaster recovery plans and data restoration procedures, some are still relying on old backup and recovery methods that can affect the prognosis for a full recovery".

This article makes a very good point; protecting your business against data loss and downtime is very dependent on the type of medium you use along with the frequency. If you are still using tape backup and running backups once a night, you are in the dark ages and apparently you don't care much about the actual ability to recover.

Backups, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery rely on a systematic approach whereby you are backing up all your data and your systems so that you not only recover data, but you recover your systems as well. The ability to protect your entire environment against local failures and also full disasters is paramount.

So, think about your strategy. How much data can you afford to lose if your server fails? How much time can you afford to be down if your server fails? Remember, your total outage is really the time span between how far back you have to go to recover your data and how long it takes for you to fix your system and be back up and running.

Thanks for listening...

Lynn
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