For those struggling with nightly backups, the arrival of low-cost disk promises to be the greatest breakthrough for improving the process since the introduction of centralized, networked backup in the early 1990s. Done properly, incorporating disk into a comprehensive data protection plan will improve the performance of backup and restore, reduce day-to-day management problem
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s and provide an enhanced degree of data protection. To realize these benefits, it's necessary to answer these questions:
Where disk can help
In survey after survey, users cite the same reasons for adopting disk as a backup medium: faster nightly backups, shorter restore times, better reliability of backup and restore and better overall manageability. Here's how disk can help realize these efficiencies.
Where disk does help significantly is with recovering a large numbers of objects, such as a full file system restore, or in a disaster recovery (DR) scenario where data is likely to be stored on multiple tape volumes.
It's important to approach disk-based backup with a solid understanding of how disk impacts each of these areas in order to realize the potential benefits.
