Back-up Solutions: Where to Cut Corners & Where Not To

1. Backups
When To Cut Corners and When Not To
Daniel Kimberlin
IT Systems Analyst, Enterprise Mobile

3. 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

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

5. Shopping
•Test Test Test
•Free Trials
•Virtual Environments
•Backup
•Restore

6. Storage
•Where Are You Going To Put It?
•Tape
•Disk
•Internal /External
•NAS / SAN

7. 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!!!

8. Strategies
Round Robin
•Advantages
•Simple
•Low Cost
•Disadvantages
•Small LOA
•Not Versatile

9. Strategies
Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS)
•Advantages
•Widely Supported
•Ease of Recovery
•Disadvantages
•More Costly
•More Admin

10. Strategies
Tower 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

11. Strategies
Tower Of Pisa
•Advantages
•None
•Disadvantages
•Many

12. Where Do I Start?
•Spiceworks
•Backup Buyer Club
•Discounts
•Vendor Relationships
•Ask the Hard Questions
•White Papers
•Peer Advice

13. 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

14. Top 10 List
That only has 5
How To Get Your Boss TO Fully
Fund Your Dream Backup
Solution

15. #5

16. #4

17. #3

18. #2

19. #1

20. Questions?