Backup & Data Retention



 

Data protection seeks to balance several divergent, yet business critical objectives simultaneously.  A well designed, implemented and managed data protection system will employ many different technologies and processes that, together, allow a business to:

  • Comply with internal policies and external regulations
  • Promote operational efficiency
  • Ensure business continuance in the event of a disaster, and
  • Minimize both operational and capital expenditures

Overview

The evolution of existing technologies like tape and hard drives and the introduction of new technologies like, most recently deduplication, force businesses to reevaluate their data protection plans on a two to three year cycle.  This is because data continues to grow at an increasing rate.  Technological improvements, like hard drives with twice the capacity for the same price; and tapes with twice the density and 50% more throughput, for example, can dramatically impact a business' ability to deal with additional data.

 

As the amount of data being pushed on the enterprise continues to grow exponentially, there is an ever increasing need to continuously protect and recover 24/7/365. Let MiBURA create a plan using one or more of these options:

 

Backup to Tape
This includes any type of magnetic tapes that can hold a certain amount of data which is carried through a magazine tray and is usually send offsite for archive purposes. The problem is tape backups are slow and carry a certain level of risk shoud the tape get misplaced

Backup to Disk
A disk level backup will usually be fast reliable and recoverable on the fly, yet the cost to backup per megabyte remains high and there is no revolving door for data to be moving at.

Database Snapshots
A snapshot of a database is usually the state of the DB at a particular point and time.