off site backup strategies
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Transforming Your Offsite Backup into a Real Recovery Option
Steven AielloTechnical Architect
What’s the Problem?
• Data Sets are Growing Massively• Data is Becoming More Valuable• IT Increasingly Must Enable Business • How Are We Going to Protect it?
Today’s Agenda
1. Backup / Availability Spectrum Options
2. How backup is different than storage
3. Data Management Life Cycle
4. Backup Trends In The Market
5. Data Security & Data Durability
6. Validating Your Backup is Key
7. Current State & Desired State for Data Protection
8. How To Achieve Desired State
Data Protection Spectrum
ReplicationAvailability Backup Archive
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Amazon S3 / Glacier as Backup?
• 99.9% Uptime• 10.1 Minutes a Week of Downtime• Questionable Data Durability• How Valuable is Your Data?
• 3 to 5 Hours Response Time• No Recovery SLA• Charge to Reclaim Data• How Valuable is Your Data?
Glacier
How Valuable is an SLA?
• $100,000,000 = $274,000 a day• $11,416 an hour (24 x 7)
• $100,000,000 = $384,515 a day• $32,042 an hour (12 x 5)
• Amazon Has a Data Durability Rating That’s 6x More Reliable Than a Consumer Hard Drive
• How Valuable is Your Data?
What Is Amazon Good For?
Availability - Is Not Backup
• Designed for 99.9999% Uptime• Very Expensive to Implement• Limited Physical Distance (50 miles)• Synchronous Replication• Zero to Seconds of Down Time a Year• Very Short to No Data History
Replication - Is Not Backup
• Designed for 99.999% Uptime• Moderately Expensive to Implement• Longer Distance (hundreds of miles)• Asynchronous Replication• Seconds to Minutes of Down Time• Moderate Data Retentions• Minimizes RTOs / RPOs
Archive - Not Backup
Glacier
• The Business May Never Need It• If Someone Needs It, It’s Lawyers• You Can Wait Days for Access• You Will Pay to Access it Because
You Most Likely Wont
Backup - What Is It?
• It’s The Sweet Spot• Inexpensive Relatively Speaking• Backup Should be Granular • Backup Should Provide a File History• Backup Should Have a Catalog• Backup Should be Durable & Secure• Backup Should Not Be Managed By Users• Backup Should… Restore
Backup - It’s not EFSS
• EFSS Is Great… For Mobility• No Revision History• Data Corruption is Everywhere• Responsibility Managed By Users• No Data Protection
Backup - Not Snapshots
• Snapshots Are Not Granular • Snapshots Are Not File History• Snapshots Have No Catalog• Snapshots Can Be Disruptive• No Encryption or Data Protection
Backup - Encrypted
• Backup Should be Durable • Backup Should be Secure• Backup Should be Encrypted
• In Transit • At Rest
• Backups Should be Offsite
Backup - Data DurabilityThere’s Only One Bullet On Purpose!
• Backup Should be Durable…
Avamar - Secret SauceNo Deduplication Database (or Corruption)
No Database / Configuration Gremlins!
Poor Myles…
Avamar - Secret SauceSHA-1 HASH Algorithm Verification
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Avamar - Secret SauceVariable Length Block Deduplication
• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
Not Changed
Changed
Avamar - Business BenefitsWhat Does it Mean for My Business?
• Day 1• Day 2• Day 3• Day 4
• Reliable Backups / Reliable Restores
• Meet Compliance Requirements
• Minimized Backup Windows
• Deduced Operational Complexity
• Lower Over All TCO
• Protect the Business!
Backup - And Recovery
On-Premises Off-Premises (Online Tech)
Steven [email protected]