Five signs that you are headed for a backup disaster
General March 25th, 2008
FIVE SIGNS THAT YOU ARE HEADED FOR A BACKUP DISASTER
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John Merryman, SearchDataBackup ContributorIn spite of the latest wave of backup technology advances, data backup is still the outsider in terms of enterprise IT. But when the backup environment suffers a catastrophic outage, everyone (especially the CIO) wants to know who fell asleep at the switch. In the interest of preserving of your data — and potentially your job — this tip offers five signs that your backup environment is going to get everyone’s attention in the near future.
Of the five, only the first (throwing hardware at the problem) doesn’t apply to me. We’re fully vulnerable to the metrics and linchpin scenario, and maybe half vulnerable to the other two (incomplete vaulting and the philosophy of backup.)
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