Businesses begin hemorrhaging money the second their systems go down. Consider Both Data Loss and DowntimeRedundancy should ensure that data is safe, no matter what happens. Back up locally, replicate to the cloud, and even consider mirroring crucial data just to be absolutely sure. Cloud providers have their own redundancies in place, but they aren’t infallible. Next, consider whether you should replicate those copies to another site as well. Store backups locally and replicate them offsite for redundancy.
The great thing about backing up to the cloud is you can move data safely offsite, away from anything that might affect your local physical storage. If you back up one server to a storage device stored in the same location, they’d both be toast if your office flooded. But depending on where and how they’re stored, it’s wise to make copies of those backups. Redundancy RedundancyYou need backups, of course. Recovery Point Objectives – How much data can you afford to lose? Just 15-minutes’ worth? An hour? A day? RPO helps you determine how often you take backups, so you can minimize data lost between your last backup and a failure event.Recovery Time Objectives – How quickly must you recover before downtime becomes too expensive to bear?.They also help define the actions you must take to reduce downtime following a failure event.
These two metrics are the foundation for every decision you make about backup. Understand Recovery ObjectivesWithout recovery objectives it’s difficult to create an effective cloud backup strategy. Here are five best practices that cover cloud-based backup and recovery. 2) Ensuring redundancy for data stored or even created in the cloud (i.e., backing up one cloud to another).
With cloud-based backup, there are two categories to think about: 1) principles for replicating onsite backups to the cloud. There’s no certainty any data you store is safe if you don’t take the right precautions. With the ubiquity of the cloud, it’s easy to forget that whether you create data in the cloud or onsite, it all lives on hardware, and hardware can fail. Many use it for basic services like storage and email, but infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) are also on the rise. By 2021, 90 percent of enterprises will be using cloud-based services. According to Gartner, the global public cloud service market will grow to $331.2B in 2022.
0 kommentar(er)
