Are full backups a thing of the past?
In a few years we may all be kicking back, drinking our lemonade on the front porch and reminiscing about the good ole days…..”Remember nightly full backups? Boy whatta pain in the a** those were…”. Until then, here’s a good article from Kevin Suttle from Storage Magazine on just that very thing…
I recently helped a Fortune 100 client evaluate continuous data protection (CDP) products and was asked if full nightly backups to tape were still needed given the advent of disk-based technologies like snapshots and CDP. Trying not to sound like a consultant attempting to please everyone, I answered “It depends.”
Snapshots and CDP provide excellent ways to recover data from a specific point in time when no known data loss or corruption existed. But it can take a while to discover a file or database error, and snapshots aren’t typically kept for a long time. That’s why full backups to tape are a vital complement to point-in-time backup tools, and will remain so in any comprehensive data protection strategy. The tricky part is to decide how to mix and match backup methods to best meet recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), and stay within your storage budget. …full article
Source: Kevin Suttle - Storage Magazine - Dec 07
In the meantime, let us know if you’d like to dicsuss your options as far as CDP, snapshots and the like for 2008.
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