Way too many web hosting clients continue to view RAID configurations as disaster recovery solutions. While different RAID levels do address redundancy and performance factors, they are NOT disaster recovery solutions. Murphy’s Law says that if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong – and at the most inopportune time.
The key to effective disaster recovery solutions is backing up your mission critical data REMOTELY and then testing the restore function to ensure that you’ll be able to bring everything back up in a timely fashion.
What do you recommend for backups and how often should you backup your data? Let's say an operation room at a hospital needs immediate (hot) backups - what would your solution entail?
The key to effective disaster recovery solutions is backing up your mission critical data REMOTELY and then testing the restore function to ensure that you’ll be able to bring everything back up in a timely fashion.
What do you recommend for backups and how often should you backup your data? Let's say an operation room at a hospital needs immediate (hot) backups - what would your solution entail?