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Chapter 12: Tales from the Trenches: My Life with Backup 2.0
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In the second chapter of this book, I shared with you some of the horror stories of Backup 1.0. I did so primarily as a way of highlighting how poorly our traditional backup techniques really meet [...]
Chapter 11: Upgrading Your Backup Mentality: Is It Really Worth It?
We’ve covered quite a bit of ground in the preceding ten chapters. It’s time to circle back and look at some of the original problems with old-school backups, and see what we may have solved with a “2.0” approach. It’s also time to look more precisely at what’s involved in redesigning your business’ backup strategy, and outlining a methodology for determining the real cost of a redesign. We should also look at some of the more human or, shall we say, political factors involved in a redesign.
Chapter 10: What’s Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
Much of this book has focused on backup and restore rather than disaster recovery. The difference? I regard “restoring” as something you do with a single file, or a group of files, or a single email message, or an entire mailbox—something less than an entire server. It might be a “disaster” that a file was accidentally deleted, but it’s typically a disaster for one or two people—not the entire business. A true disaster, in my view, is when an entire server goes down—or worse, when an entire data center is affected.
Session 10 – Putting it all together: Creating your own Backup 2.0 Plan
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Why the Backup 1.0 Mentality Is Killing You
Our decades-old backup techniques are not sufficient anymore. They may be great for creating backups—although in many cases, they aren’t even good for that—but they [...]
Session 9 – Understanding the ROI of Backup 2.0 – Building a business case
So often as IT professionals we tend to focus on the technical aspects of a solution: choosing the best infrastructure design, plowing through the features and functions of a new piece of software, and so on. But every IT professional also has a critical role to play in the business discussion when you’re organization is evaluating new solutions. IT can be a driver of value directly to the business’s bottom line, saving your company time and money in the process. All you have to do is know how to present information in a way that your business counterparts can understand it. In this session of Backup 2.0 University, Joshua Hoffman will walk you through the process of calculating the ROI (return on investment) of technology solutions. With these tools in your belt, you’ll be empowered to present business ideas to your colleagues, and deliver value to your business. Joshua will also speak with Romi Mahajan, principal of the KKM Group, a global strategy and advisor firm specializing in information technology. Romi will discuss the importance of developing a common language between business and IT professionals, and mutual benefits that everyone can realize as a result.
Chapter 9: Keeping Your Backups: Storage Architecture
All of the backups we’re making are going to require some serious storage, so Chapter 9 will focus on storage architecture. The chapter looks at how backup data is structured, and compares the advantages and disadvantages of things like storage area networks (SANs), tape drives, local storage, and so forth. The chapter also examines pressing issues of storage: compression, encryption, security, de-duplication, and so on. I’ll also look at unique ways that Backup 2.0 allows you to interact with your backed-up data more easily and efficiently.
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Session 7 – Migration Strategies
Infrastructure migrations are often the largest projects IT pros will take on in their career. Whether upgrading to a new version, replacing hardware, or merging systems with a new partner, migrations are often complex, and have the potential to put your critical business data at risk. Join Joshua Hoffman for a discussion of how to integrate backup and recovery planning into your infrastructure migration project, helping to ensure that your data remains projected before, during, and after your migration project is complete. Joshua will also speak with IT industry consultant Mitch Chen, who shares his own expertise from the field to help your migration go as smoothly as possible.
Session 8 – Cloud-based Backup Strategies
The term “cloud computing” is thrown around quite a bit these days, yet it’s actual definition remains unclear to many. What’s the difference between a private cloud and a hybrid cloud? Is Software-as-a-Service the same is Infrastructure-as-a-service? And most importantly, how can cloud computing help me lower my IT costs, without putting my data at risk? In this session of Backup 2.0 University, Joshua Hoffman will help you demystify cloud computing, exploring the variety of approaches available to organizations today, and how cloud computing can begin to play a key role in your backup and recovery strategy. Joshua will also speak with Steve Riley, a senior technical program manager for Amazon Web Services. Steve will discuss the growing role that cloud computing is playing in the modern data center, and answer questions about its role in backup and recovery.
Chapter 8: Other Concerns and Capabilities
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There’s more to a backup strategy than just grabbing the right files and making sure you can restore them in a pinch—although that’s obviously a big part of it. A solid backup strategy also concerns itself [...]
Chapter 7: Virtualization Server Backups
Virtualization has changed the way we think about our data centers, and has enabled a number of new, flexible computing scenarios that are saving businesses money and helping them to be more agile. At the same time, however, virtualization has upset many of the tried-and-true IT operations practices that have been developed over the years. In many ways, virtualization is “Computing 2.0,” and Backup 1.0 just isn’t a good fit. This chapter explains how people have been trying to make Backup 1.0 get along with virtualized infrastructures, and suggests ways in which Backup 2.0 could do a much better job and help fully realize the promise of virtualization.
Session 6 – Keeping your backups: Storage Architecture
Where and how we store are data is almost as important as the data itself. After all, the best backups in the world will fail to meet our needs if the underlying storage architecture isn’t sound. Join Joshua Hoffman for a discussion of the variety of options that exist in storage architecture today, and how [...]
Session 5 – Rethinking Virtualization Server Backups
Virtualization has helped revolutionize the data center – providing opportunities to consolidate infrastructure, decrease costs and simplify management for IT administrators. However, virtualization creates a unique set of challenges as organizations aim to protect the data and the applications hosted in their virtual environments. Join Joshua Hoffman as he discusses new approaches for the backup [...]
Chapter 6: Rethinking SharePoint Server Backups
The last major server product to cover in this guide is SharePoint, which offers its own unique challenges. In fact, SharePoint—which has rapidly grown in popularity in the past few years—may be the biggest challenge that Backup 2.0 has to face. Chapter 6 will look at native solutions, cover problems and challenges, and compare the “1.0” way of doing things with a more enlightened “2.0” approach.
Session 1: the Backup 1.0 Mentality is Killing You with guest lecturer, Microsoft MVP Don Jones
Throughout computing history, backups have been practical, simple procedures: Copy a bunch of data from one place to another. But this mentality, what MVP Don Jones calls the “Backup 1.0 Mentality” is killing businesses that have “always-on” data backup and recovery needs – like the databases used by Exchange Server and SQL Server.
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Chapter 5: Rethinking SQL Server Backups
More and more companies are using Microsoft SQL Server these days—and in many cases, they don’t even realize it. While plenty of organizations deliberately install SQL Server, many businesses find themselves using SQL Server as a side effect, because SQL Server is the data store for some line-of-business application, technology solution, and so on.
Session 3: Rethinking Exchange Server Backups with guest lecturer Paul Randal
More and more companies are using Microsoft SQL Server these days—and in many cases, they don’t even realize it. While plenty of organizations deliberately install SQL Server, many businesses find themselves using SQL Server as a side effect, because SQL Server is the data store for some line-of-business application, technology solution, and so on.
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Session 2: Rethinking Exchange Server Backups with guest lecturer, Microsoft MVP Lee Benjamin
As one of the most popular solutions for corporate email, Exchange Server occupies a special place in your infrastructure. It’s expected to be “always on,” always available, and always reliable. Disasters simply can’t be tolerated. Discover how Backup 2.0 can better serve your Exchange Server backup needs. Special guest lecturer interview with Lee Benjamin.
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Chapter 4: Exchange Server Backups
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Many folks take email for granted, although they expect it to be as available and reliable as a telephone dial tone. As one of the most popular solutions for corporate email, Exchange Server occupies a special [...]
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CREATING A BUSINESS CASE: TRANSLATING TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES INTO BUSINESS ADVANTAGE
Technical people and business people don’t always speak the same language. This white paper outlines and illustrates how to create a business case for new technology. It uses the example of fictitious companies that is currently spending quite a bit of money on a tape-based data [...]
Chapter 3: Whole-Server Backups
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In Chapter 3, I’ll address the most common kinds of servers: file servers, print servers, directory servers, and even Web servers. I’ll show you what some of the native solutions look like, discuss some of the [...]
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Chapter 2: Horror Stories: We Thought We Had a Backup!
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Are you still making backups the old-fashioned way? Whether you back up Windows, Exchange Server, SharePoint, SQL Server, or virtualization servers, the old-school backup mentality may not be serving your actual needs. IT author and Microsoft [...]
Chapter 1: Why Backup 1.0 Is No Longer Enough
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Are you still making backups the old-fashioned way? Whether you back up Windows, Exchange Server, SharePoint, SQL Server, or virtualization servers, the old-school backup mentality may not be serving your actual needs. IT author and Microsoft [...]
Assuring Successful Exchange Recoveries
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Microsoft Exchange is a mission-critical business application. When the e-mail stops flowing to users, productivity grinds to a halt. Mark Arnold discusses how to develop a consistent method for validating the recoverability of Exchange and incorporating it into everyday operations to prepare for disasters.
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Messaging has rapidly become the one, true business critical application in use today by many, probably most, enterprises. Even more so than Enterprise Resource Planning or other cross-business applications, any failure in the messaging system is noticed by, and affects everyone. Learn how to proactively approach disaster recovery for Microsoft [...]
Disaster Recovery, Hoping for the Best, Planning for the Worst
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Email has evolved from a convenience to a business necessity. The impact of natural, random, and man-made disasters on email, and the subsequent disruption in mail-flow can cripple an organization’s ability to deliver messages. This E-Guide from SearchExchange.com and AppAssure Software offers best practices and advice for protecting [...]
Configuring Microsoft Exchange for Fast Recovery
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Microsoft Exchange is the premiere authority for email in today’s global marketplace. With the impact email has on the workplace and corporate communications, along with the advent of Exchange Server 2007, maintaining an optimal environment is vital. This includes building a resilient environment that can recover from unexpected interruptions.
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Any company that relies on data intensive applications like e-mail, financial, human resource, customer management, and product development systems – and that’s every company – is experiencing data explosion. Mandated by legal compliance and required by management best practices, data protection measures including backup, storage, and retrieval, are more mission-critical than ever. On [...]
Leveraging Virtualization for Application Assurance
Business continuity. Application assurance. Virtualization. Consider that a mission-critical progression. Business continuity is essential for business productivity. Bluntly put, if people can’t get their work done, it’s impossible to realize revenue. The applications that are most central to the productivity of every staff person in your organization are e-mail and SQL databases. They need reliable [...]
SQL Server Database Backup and Restore Planning
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Whether a business is small, medium or large business, it must have a well-written plan for backing up the servers. Planning a backup strategy up-front and documenting not only the backup process but also the restore process, will save you a ton of time in the end. Because of its value to the [...]
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Windows Server applications are often mission critical. The impact of natural, random and man-made disasters on these applications, especially email, and their subsequent disruption can cripple an organization. This white paper from AppAssure Software offers advice for protecting your existing Windows Server infrastructure from disruptive application outages.
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Deduplication: Effectively Reducing the Cost of Backup and Storage
Organizations have to backup and store data. Compliance requirements demand that data be stored for periods of time. Productivity demands that data is available in case of disaster or accidental loss of work. Unfortunately, meeting those demands is getting more and more expensive as the amount of data that has to be backed up and [...]
Creating a Business Case: Translating Technical Capabilities into Business Advantage
Technical people and business people don’t always speak the same language. IT managers and administrators who understand the business goals and realities of their company are able to evaluate and select technology that will help meet goals while staying within budget. In best case scenarios, the technology they select actually saves the company money. The [...]
Why Switch to Backup 2.0
Archiving – saving point in time data to tape and storing it off-site – is important to your business. It’s just not very helpful when you need to restore lost work or recover from a disaster. Archiving data is Backup 1.0. Automatic processes that run over high-speed networks, prevent the loss of data and work, ensure access to data, and minimize downtime – that’s Backup 2.0. If end-user and IT productivity are important to you, you need Backup 2.0. Here’s how it protects data and work while drastically reducing restoration time requirements:
Session 4: Rethinking SharePoint Server Backups with Michael Noel
As we continue rethinking server backups, a “wish list” starts to emerge. This is particularly so as we look at SharePoint Server Backups. Join Joshua Hoffman as he discusses items like new and better techniques, better restore scenarios, easier management and more. Joshua then speaks with Michael Noel about SharePoint Server Backups and the Backup [...]
