Chapter 1: Why Backup 1.0 Is No Longer Enough
Series: The Definitive Guide Series
Author: Don Jones
ISBN: pending
Throughout computing history, backups have been practical, simple procedures: Copy a bunch of data from one place to another. Complexities arise with “always-on” data like the databases used by Exchange Server and SQL Server, and various techniques have been developed to access that form of in-use data; however, backups have ultimately always been about a fairly simple, straightforward copy. Even magnetic tape—much more advanced than in the 1960s, of course—is still a primary form of storage for many organizations’ backups.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Why the Backup 1.0 Mentality is Killing You
Series: The Definitive Guide Series
Author: Don Jones
ISBN: pending
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The first backup—technically—was around 1951, when the first generation of digital computing appeared in the form of UNIVAC I. The “backups,” such as they were, were the punch cards used to feed instructions to the massive [...]
