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How far apart should my production and alternate recovery sites be? As a good consultant, I would have to use the typical answer; it depends. We have a few things to consider here. First, what kind of disaster are you trying to protect yourself (or your organization) from? Second, what...
How do I establish recovery priority for my applications? If it's at the IT level, it comes from a data perspective. When you start moving up a little bit into the business side, people start looking at the applications because they don't really know where the data is. If we...
How do I identify what data to replicate and what data to simply backup? It goes back again to the value of the data to your organization -- or the impact of losing access to this data. Typically, from a business continuity perspective, the best way to establish this is through what we call a...
Are tape backups a thing of the past when it comes to disaster recovery? It is very interesting how quickly things change in our industry -- My answer to this question a year ago was highlighted replication or mirroring for highly critical data, disk-to-disk backups for middle tier data and...
Aren't backups and archives essentially the same thing? The answer to that can be a "yes" and "no." If we look at a very high level, a copy of data is a copy of data, and that's where a lot of people confuse both as being somewhat the same -- one copy is just kept longer....
Should I back up the operating system files? Here is another prime example of technology evolving to meet business requirements. I have always been a firm believer that, except for small IT environments, operating systems files should not be part of regular...
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