small business backup & disaster recovery
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Recorded webinar presentation. E xigent Technologies of Mount Arlington, NJ / Manhattan, NY. "Managed Backup & Disaster Recovery service for Small Business". PREVENT Webinar is hosted by Exigent Technologies President, Dan Haurey. March 3, 2009, 10:00AM.TRANSCRIPT
BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY WEBINAR
Presented By: Daniel J. Haurey, Tel. (973) 770-0500
ASSUMPTIONS1. You have at least one server running a
Windows network operating system
2. You're either interested in or participate in the ongoing safeguarding and protection of your organization’s data
TWO GOALS FOR TODAY
To educate the attendees on technology and industry trends that are allowing us to take advantage of robust backup and business
continuity options that were formerly out of reach for most organizations
To inform you that you have a choice over traditional tape that offers rapid recovery time and continuance of operations during a failure
WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO STOP RELYING EXCLUSIVELY ON TAPE FOR YOUR BACKUP
NEEDS
AGENDAI. DEFINE THE JARGONII. TWO CRITICAL PIECES OF THE RECOVERY PROCESSIII. CONFRONTING YOUR INDIVIDUAL RISK TOLERANCE IV. INTRODUCTION TO DISK BASED BACKUP TECHNOLOGYV. INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUALIZATION AND CONTINUITYVI. PREVENT, MANAGED BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERYVII. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING OUR DIGITAL ASSETS
A recent study discovered that, of companies experiencing a “major loss” of computer records, 43 percent never reopened, 51 percent closed within two years of the loss, and a mere 6 percent survived over the long-term•
•Cummings, Maeve; Haag, Stephen; and McCubbrey, Donald. 2003. Management information systems for the information age.
IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING OUR DIGITAL ASSETS
“Numerous surveys reveal that second to mis-configuration of the backup software, the leading cause of backup failure is human error”
“As a monotonous, thankless job, the shuttling of tapes in and out of a backup tape drive is frequently delegated to employees without the benefit of professional training, who perform the task as their lowest priority on the way out the door”
WHAT IS BUSINESS CONTINUITY?
WHAT IS DISASTER RECOVERY?
• Business Continuity encompasses Disaster Recovery, Backups and even business succession planning. It provides the strategy and process involved to make sure your company survives the loss of key individuals, data, equipment, or facilities. How do we continue operations if <X> happens?
• Disaster Recovery typically refers how companies respond or recover from actual disasters, like a flood, fire, earthquake, theft, etc.
STRATEGIC
TACTICAL
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYTWO COMPONENTS OF BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY
1. SAFEGUARD THE ACTUAL DATA2. PROVIDE FOR CONTINUITY OF IT
SERVICES
SAFEGUARD THE DATA
• BACK IT UP! (make copies of the data) • Most common backup destinations:
– Tape– External hard disks– Network Attached Storage– Offsite services that backup over Internet to a
remote datacenter
PROVIDE FOR CONTINUITY
• Allow for continuance of IT services:– during failure– during recovery process
• Allow email to continue to flow• Allow access to documents• Allow access to software• Allow BUSINESS and IT to CONTINUE
THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE
ARE BACKING UP (COPYING DATA) BUT NOT PROVIDING FOR
CONTINUITY
HOW DO I PROVIDE CONTINUITY?
UP UNTIL RECENTLY…
•NOT VERY EASILY!•NOT COST-EFFECTIVELY
•CLUSTERING?•SPARE SERVERS?•EXPENSIVE AND COMPLEX DATA REPLICATION
WHAT IS OUR TOLERANCE FOR DOWNTIME
Most people claim that they can be “down” anywhere from 2 hours to 2 days
REALITY“after a moderate to major failure, most people with tape backup, or, data, copied to tape, are looking at anywhere from two days to two weeks, depending on parts availability or delivery”
ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER TRENDS MAKE BUSINESS
CONTINUITY POSSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE
ENTER DISK-BASED BACKUPENTER VIRTUALIZATION
WHAT IS DISK BASED BACKUP?
Utilize fast, inexpensive hard drives, rather than tape for your backup operations
DISK BASED BACKUP?(IN LIEU OF TAPE)
WHY NOW?WHY DIDN’T WE USE DISK EARLIER?
STORAGE PRICES HAVE PLUMMETED
STORAGE PRICES HAVE PLUMMETEDmassive storage / minimal cost
MASSIVE CAPACITY
VERY LOW COST
HARD DISKCOSTS
SUMMARY1. Organizations need to look beyond just copying data to tape
2. The simple copying of data to tape is not a strategy. Rather, when it works flawlessly, it merely safeguards your data and is one piece of a two-part process
3. Providing Business Continuity, or the ability to keep working in the face of a failure is critical
4. Most companies have a very false sense of security in tape or a distorted view of the recovery process and actual time needed to fully recover from a failure or disaster
5. Industry pricing trends and technological advances have allowed for smaller organizations and those with a tighter IT budgets to move from tape alone, to robust disaster recovery which provides for business continuity
6. Make no mistake about it, using tape alone leaves you and your organization vulnerable to considerable downtime
TAPE VS. DISK
TAPE ADVANTAGES
DISK ADVANTAGES
PORTABILITY Tapes are compact and lightweight.
RELIABILITY Hard disk is significantly more reliable than tape
RANDOM ACCESS No winding or seeking. Much faster backup and restore times. Disk access times are
typically 10 milliseconds. It can take several minutes to seek the correct place
on a tape
LIFE SPAN Each tape is specified to have only a limited number of read/write cycles. Hard disks
have virtually no limitation
PRICE Disk prices have plummeted. All things considered, disk is cheaper
SPEED The raw speed advantage of hard disk is superior to tape
REWRITABILITY Instant ability to write over data, whereas tapes can require erase cycles and re-
tensioning
COMPONENTS OF AN IRONCLAD BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN
•FREQUENT BACKUPS (MORE THAN EVERY 24 HOURS)
•HEALTH AND INTEGRITY OF BACKUPS MONITORED
•BLOCK LEVEL BACKUP, VERSUS FILE LEVEL BACKUP
•BACKUP IS ENCRYPTED FOR SECURITY REASONS
•FAILOVER AND BARE METAL RESTORE CAPABILITIES
•OFFSITE STORAGE CAPABILITY
THE ANSWERPREVENT™ | Managed Backup & Disaster
Recovery
•Frequent backups (as frequent as every 15 minutes)
•Failover capability through virtualization of servers
•Backups are monitored 24 hours per day, 7 days per week
•Security (256 AES encryption on and off-site)
•Bare Metal Restores to dissimilar hardware
•Optional backup of your backup to an offsite datacenter
HOW DOES IT WORK?
NEXT STEPS
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