Your business and its disaster recovery plan. Proactive Prevention is ALWAYS better than Reactive Recovery.

1. Backup and Disaster
Recovery
Advanced Business Solutions
David Lacey

2. Backup and Disaster Recovery
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What is it?
Why is it Important?
What are the Basic Fundamentals?
What is a “Good” Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution?
Where Should YOU Start?
Tips and Tricks!
What does the Future Look Like?

3. What is it?
Backup
The procedure of making extra copies of data in case the original is lost or
damaged.
• Usually used to recover individual files/folders
• Example: Someone accidently deletes a file
Disaster Recovery
The processes, policies and procedures related to ensuring business continuity in
the event of a natural or human-induced disaster.
• Used during large scale interruptions of service where entire systems are
unavailable
• Example: Pipe burst in a server room and completely destroys all servers

4. Why is it Important?
Every business has important data that is essential to their operation:
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Email Data
CRM Databases
Accounting Information
User Documents
Every business has “threats” that are constantly putting that data at risk:
• Employees
• Angry employee
• Untrained employee
• Virus/Malware/Spyware
• Cryptolocker
• Environmental Problems
• Power, Cooling, etc…
• Bad Luck!

5. Why is it Important?
Proactive Prevention is ALWAYS better than Reactive Recovery

6. What are the Basic Fundamentals?
Backup and Disaster Recovery is like an onion….
Each layer of the onion is a layer of protection
• More layers = better protection!

7. What are the Basic Fundamentals?
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Variables
Endpoints
Applications
Network
Storage
Servers
Backups

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Data everywhere!
Servers not secure!
No backup power!
Poor network design!
Inconsistent backup
process!
Many single points of
failure!

9. What is a Good Backup/DR Solution?
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Consolidated data
Servers in a secure
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Servers connected to a
UPS
Network is optimized
Centralized backup
Many layers of protection
to avoid Single Points of
Failure

10. Where Should YOU Start?

11. Where Should YOU Start?
Know what you’re REQUIRED to do
• Compliance Requirements
• PCI, SAS70, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc…
• Customer Expectations
• Are your customers expecting a service/product from you?
• Employee Expectations
• Employee Payroll

12. Where Should YOU Start?
Know what you WANT to do
• Identify Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective
• Be realistic!!!

13. Where Should YOU Start?
Know what you NEED to do
• Every company is different
• If you have a lot of turnover, securing your data and ensuring that access to it is limited
might be important
• If you’re building has lots of power problems, a good UPS system might be important
• Identify what your company needs to SURVIVE
• Data is not the only important thing…
• Think outside of the box – Printers, Fax Machines, Phone Systems

14. Where Should YOU Start?
Know what you’re ALREADY CAPABLE of doing
• A lot of these pieces to the puzzle might already be in place
• No reason to spend money unless you have to…

15. Tips and Tricks!
• Centralize your data
• Keep your Anti-Virus software up to date
• Keep your Workstation and Server Operating Systems up to date
• Reduce the amount of physical access to your Mission Critical
Infrastructure
• Take advantage of the built in features that Microsoft Provides

16. Tips and Tricks!
• When buying hardware, build in as much redundancy as possible
• Keep your existing equipment up to date
• Compartmentalize your existing data
• Maintain/monitor the backup process
• Test the process at least once a year
• Train your employees
• Get involved!!

17. What does the Future Look Like?
• Bandwidth getting cheaper
• Virtualization Technology will advance
• Deduplication
• CLOUD