Small Business Backup & Disaster Recovery

BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY WEBINAR
Presented By: Daniel J. Haurey, Tel. (973) 770-0500

ASSUMPTIONS
You have at least one server running a Windows network operating system
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

AGENDA
DEFINE THE JARGON
TWO CRITICAL PIECES OF THE RECOVERY PROCESS
CONFRONTING YOUR INDIVIDUAL RISK TOLERANCE
INTRODUCTION TO DISK BASED BACKUP TECHNOLOGY
INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUALIZATION AND CONTINUITY
PREVENT, MANAGED BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY
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?
STRATEGIC
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 happens?
Disaster Recovery typically refers how companies respond or recover from actual disasters, like a flood, fire, earthquake, theft, etc.
TACTICAL

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
TWO COMPONENTS OF BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY
SAFEGUARD THE ACTUAL DATA
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 BACKUP
ENTER 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 CAPACITYVERY LOW COST
HARD DISK
COSTS

Organizations need to look beyond just copying data to tape
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
Providing Business Continuity, or the ability to keep working in the face of a failure is critical
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
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
Make no mistake about it, using tape alone leaves you and your organization vulnerable to considerable downtime
SUMMARY

TAPE VS. DISK

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 ANSWER
PREVENT™ | 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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TO: SUPPORT@EXIGENT.NET
SUBJECT: PREVENT
THANKS FOR JOINING US TODAY!

Small Business Backup & Disaster Recovery

by Exigent Technologies on Sep 27, 2009

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