How to determine RTOs and RPOs for backup and recovery
Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations.
Stories by W. Curtis Preston
Data storage archive options: Which is the best for you?
When choosing the appropriate archive option, enterprise storage professionals need to consider data preservation, accessibility, and resource optimisation.
3 types of incremental forever backup
Full-file incremental forever, block-level incremental forever or source deduplication? The best way to choose is to perform backup and recovery tests and evaluate the performance of each method.
Data replication works best when combined with robust backups
Replication excels at providing immediate data availability, but it shouldn’t be the sole safeguard against human errors, data corruption, or cyberattacks.
Data archiving: It doesn’t have to be on tape
Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud, on disk drives, and optical disks, but each has some drawbacks.
Five reasons restores can take longer than backups
Backing up data can be fairly quick, but because the steps needed to access the backup and restore it to the live network, restores can be surprisingly slow.
Why cloud is the way to go when recovering from ransomware
For businesses attacked by ransomware, a fully automated, high-speed disaster recovery is the way to successfully avoid paying the ransom.
Ransomware: How to ensure back-ups are ready for a real attack
Avoid paying off ransomware attackers by following these steps to ensure back-ups can restore infected systems.
Back-up lessons from OVHcloud's catastrophic fire disaster
Organisations that failed to make sure their cloud data was backed up learned the consequences when an OVHcloud data centre burned last month.
How CIOs can protect back-ups from ransomware
Back-ups can be defended against ransomware attacks by moving them offsite from primary systems and removing file-system access.
Disaster recovery lessons from an island struck by a hurricane
Prepping for disaster recovery needs a plan, testing, and thinking about non-technical necessities like food and shelter for the recovery team.
Facts about back-up security that should scare businesses to death
How CIOs can tighten up security for back-up systems and avoid malicious activities carried out by lone wolves.
Backing up databases is critical and complex
Proper database back-up is essential because of the importance of the data they contain, so understanding how the work is also a must.
Should businesses upgrade tape drives to the latest standard?
A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have?
How to ensure data that should be backed up gets backed up
Using selective exclusion may result in storing some useless data, but it avoids having no back-up for the important stuff
