A 10-minute presentation delivered by David McClelland for Butterfly Software in May 2011 covering the basics of enterprise backup and recovery for a non-enterprise backup and recovery audience.

1. Food for Thought – Backup and Recovery
© Butterfly Software 2011
David McClelland
23rd May 2011

3. Agenda:
1. What is Backup and Recovery?
2. Don’t Bore me with your Backups
3. Technologies
4. AOB

4. What is Backup and Recovery?

5. B&R Buzzword Bingo:
Restore, Disaster, SAN, Protect, Backup, RPO, Recovery,
ILM, Resiliency, Continuance, HSM, Availability, Disk,
Archive, Test, Manage, Store, RTO, Tape, Retention,
CDP, Plan, Regulation, Deduplication,
Secure, Data

6. Why do I need to back up?

7. Definitions and Distinctions
Different reasons for Backup:
• Operational Recovery
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Continuity
• Archival
One tool fits all…?

8. Don’t Bore me with your Backups…

9. Don’t bore me with your backups.
I want to know about your restores.
RPO “Recovery Point Objective”
How much data can I afford to lose (time)?
or
How much data do I need to keep (time)?
RTO “Recovery Time Objective”
How soon can I have my data back?
or
“Return To Operations”
How soon can I have my customers back?

10. Solutions:
• Design data protection solutions to meet data
recovery requirements
• Infrastructure Capability
• Client configuration
• Simple maths
• Service Catalog
• Tiered Recovery Mechanisms

11. Technology – Software:

12. Technology – Hardware:

13. LTO Specifications

14. Technology – Fight Club:
• Right technology for right requirement
• Tape holds its own in Enterprise
• IDC expect tape library sales to rise over next 5 years

15. Tape is Dead. Long Live Tape.

16. Any Other Business?