The backup plan

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The backup plan

If you’re in IT, you probably recoil when you hear the words “backup and recovery”. Not because you don’t believe in the necessity of these processes, but rather because they can involve hours upon hours of work, at the end of which you probably still don’t feel 100% comfortable with your business’s backup plan.

As corporate data continues to explode, companies are being faced with a scary truth: without data, there is no business. Which is precisely why it is so vital to create a modern, dependable system to safeguard priceless business information. Once again, cloud comes to the rescue, with cloud backup as well as recovery and restore options having emerged as secure, cost-effective and reliable solutions over the last decade.
 
Companies concerned in security do not use cloud backup, unless cloud server is owned by the company.
 
with fibre and storage so cheap, a lot has changed in this regard. backups are now to disk for easy access and then to tape for offsite storage. DR sites are now replicated using fibre links to the remote sites which in most cases are a cold (or readable) standby which is a replica of the primary site
 
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