BackupsWhen To Cut Corners and When

Not To

Daniel KimberlinIT Systems Analyst, Enterprise

Mobile

Planning (Plan Plan Plan)

•What Do You Really Need?•To Backup?•Life of Archive?

•What is Your Goal?•Deletion Recovery•System Failure•Natural Disaster •Zombie Apocalypse

Shopping

•Where is My Budget?•Low•Medium•High•What’s a Budget?•Do you really need all those Features?

Shopping

•Test Test Test•Free Trials•Virtual Environments•Backup•Restore

Storage

•Where Are You Going To Put It?•Tape•Disk•Internal /External

•NAS / SAN

Storage

•How Are You Going To Put It?•Disk 2 Disk 2Tape 2 DVD 2 Floppy 2,etc. •Strategy?•Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly

•To Infinity and Beyond!!!

StrategiesRound Robin

•Advantages•Simple•Low Cost

•Disadvantages•Small LOA•Not Versatile

StrategiesGrandfather, Father, Son (GFS)

•Advantages•Widely Supported•Ease of Recovery

•Disadvantages•More Costly•More Admin

StrategiesTower Of Hanoi

•Advantages•Comprehensive•Job Security

•Disadvantages•Complicated•No Daily

A B A C A B A D A B A C A B A E

StrategiesTower Of Pisa

•Advantages•None

•Disadvantages•Many

Where Do I Start?

•Spiceworks•Backup Buyer Club•Discounts

•Vendor Relationships•Ask the Hard Questions

•White Papers•Peer Advice

Watch It All Come Together

•Work Inside Your Budget

•Find a Great Solution ( you are the one that has to deal with it.)

•Be the IT All Star

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How To Get Your Boss TO Fully Fund Your Dream Backup

Solution

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Questions?