Eliminate Disaster with a Recovery & Continuity Strategy
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Eliminate Disaster with a Recovery & Continuity Strategy
- 1. Eliminate Disaster with a Recovery & Continuity Strategy Presented by Peter Miles Tiffany Bloomer
- 2. Who We Are
- 3. Backups & Disaster Recovery
- 5. Be Prepared
- 9. 3-2-1 Backup Rule 3 Copies 2 Types of Media 1 Copy Offsite
- 10. Cut Down TTR
- 11. Ways to Save on Offsite DR
- 13. Solution: Backup Configurations Schedule
- 15. Aventis Systems: Disaster Recovery ✓ Plan ✓ Analyze ✓ Configure & Reinstall ✓ Restore ✓ Standby
- 16. For All IT Departments
- 17. Disaster Recovery Planning 1. Consider Virtualization 2. 3-2-1 Backup Rule 3. Offsite DR 4. Backup Configurations 5. Consider External Partner
- 18. Contact Us Services@Aventis.Systems www.Aventis.Systems
Editor's Notes
- Hello! Welcome to “Eliminate Disaster with a Recovery & Continuity Strategy.”
- My name is Tiffany Bloomer, Director of Business Development at Aventis Systems. Today, I have asked Peter Miles to discuss the importance of backups in a disaster recovery strategy, and tips to creating a simple and effective recovery plan. Peter is a Technical Sales Engineer here at Aventis Systems and serves as a trusted hardware and software pre-sales advisor; he also performs on-site installation and maintenance services, and provides troubleshooting assistance for our customers around the world. Thank you for joining us today, Peter! So, let’s talk disaster recovery!
- Thanks, Tiffany. Being in IT, it’s expected that we all have backups to some degree for disaster recovery purposes. Some backups are on a daily schedule of all systems, while others rely on one-time snapshots of their key systems with a loose schedule of incremental backups.
- However, recovering from backups is not something everyone does often. The major offense to backup recovery is that many IT departments have backups in place, but fail to test their backups to verify they are good and effective in the event of a failure.
- For today’s webinar, we are going to assume something even worse than simple data loss may happen to your business. Like any insurance policy, it pays to know what to do when the unforeseeable and unexpected happens, and be prepared to take immediate action.
- Tiffany Interjection Backups may seem like the easy disaster recovery solution because they can be taken using many different methods, programs, schedules, and media types. But the process of recovering your lost data, or getting up and running on replacement hardware, is something that needs to be proofed and tested, so that in the event of failure - you’re back up and running as fast as possible.
- Tiffany Interjection We know that disasters come in all shapes and sizes from simple file deletion, to a massive storm or power outage. Whether you need to recover an operating system after power loss, or failover to a DR site after a natural disaster, having the right backup and recovery plan is essential to any business.
- Right! So let’s discuss a few steps an IT department of any size can take to establish a simple and effective recovery plan. First, consider virtualization. Virtualization has become a widely used technology for SMBs for this very reason. The time it takes to provision a new virtual machine, or restore one from a backup, can be drastically less than a traditional hardware setup. When VMware’s ESXi or Microsoft’s Hyper-V are combined with backup and recovery software like Veeam, you can have a virtual machine restored in a matter of minutes, or an exact replica on standby, in the event of a disaster.
- Next, plan to implement the 3, 2, 1 backup rule. This means you will have 3 copies, located on 2 different media types, and 1 of these will be stored off site. Having a backup copy off site is the more important step to ensure that recovery is possible in the event that your entire building is damaged. Tiffany Interjection Now, of course this is just covers data backup. What about hardware or configurations necessary for a solid DR plan?
- Hardware is the most difficult thing to replace on a short timeline because of the requisitioning steps involved. If you have the ability to failover to a Disaster Recovery location with the backup hardware already in place, this cuts down on time to recovery (TTR) tremendously. Before virtualization, provisioning systems required almost as much time as the hardware requisition in the first place. Lucky for all of us, we have witnessed incredible technological strides in that area and can now package up and transfer container VMs which eliminates bare-metal deployment entirely.
- Having a full lineup of server hardware in place that may never even get used isn’t always a realistic scenario for most businesses. Having a third party company host your disaster recovery site allows you to have an off site disaster recovery plan in place for a fraction of the cost.
- Finally the most difficult part of all when migrating to the Disaster Recovery hardware platform is mirroring the tweaks and configurations that accrue over time with network devices, servers, storage and application deployments. If these are not documented or have not been packaged up as part of the VM environment backup, troubleshooting the Disaster Recovery site will take the majority of the time until the original and new configurations match.
- To aid with this, it is recommended to also keep a backup schedule for these configuration files which most manufacturers have built in tools to assist with. This allows the configuration of a replacement switch or server to take a matter of minutes instead of hours.
- Tiffany Interjection These are great points, Peter! I like how they are easy, executable points for SMB IT departments to implement right away. If they experience any issues, we also offer fantastic disaster recovery planning and resolution services.
- Absolutely. Under our Enterprise Solutions programming, we offer services that include preliminary planning, analysis of previous configurations, actual configuration of server and storage arrays, and reinstallation of hypervisors, operating systems, or applications post-failure. Most importantly, we will restore backed up data and settings so that they’re ready to go immediately. We offer everything from cold standby environments to live mirror sites, with the cost of downtime driving the decision between these options for the customer.
- Tiffany Summary IT departments of all sizes should have a plan in place to enable the continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems, in the event of a disaster. There are several simple steps that SMB IT departments can take to build out a simple, effective disaster recovery plan:
- First, consider using the time-saving capabilities of virtualization. Second, implement the 3-2-1 backup rule. Third, have an off site hardware setup or a third party hosted disaster recovery site. And lastly, keep up-to-date copies of your critical configuration files. Consider an external partner to assist you with your disaster recovery planning and implementation. Aventis Systems offers our IT expertise to you in order to restore business application configurations, so your business can get back to work.
- Aventis Systems is an industry leader in developing customized and comprehensive IT hardware, software, and services solutions. Please visit us at www.Aventis.Systems for additional information. You can also find us on Facebook or on Twitter @AventisSystems.
- Thank you for tuning in!