Download - 7 steps to smarter backup Speaker Title Date. Disaster-proof your business. Cut costly downtime
4.6M instances of data loss,every year.
18.5 hours to recover on average.Downtime costs $5,600 each minute.1. US TechWench All Things Tech
2. Gartner Data Center Conference3. Ponemon Institute
Can you fully restore critical systems with current strategies and technology?
72%
28%Less than confidentVery confident
Forrester Research 2014
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Top causes of downtime are mundane events, not disasters
Base: 94 global disaster recovery decision-makers and influencers (does not include “don’t know” responses; multiple responses accepted) Source: Forrester/Disaster Recovery Journal November 2013 Global Disaster Recovery Preparedness Online Survey
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Perform a risk assessment. Inventory your assets
Assess your threats
Analyze the impact of each incident
Static
Does not change over time
Not all data is the same. Busines
s vitalIs vital to the daily operations of the business
Mission criticalIf lost or unavailable – even for short periods of time – damage will occur
Define your application criticality.
Speak to your business stakeholders
Group your applications and data
Simplify, 3 to 5 groupings are enough
Location Server/VM OS and hypervisor Application IP address Disk allocated Disk used Dependencies
SFO-1
Orcl-001 RHEL 5.x Oracle 11g 10.10.10.1 5 TB 1 TB
Exch-001 Win 2012 r2Exchange 2013 (DAG1) 10.10.10.2 20 TB 7 TB Exch-002
Exch-002 Win 2012 r2Exchange 2013 (DAG2) 10.10.10.3 20 TB 7 TB Exch-001
MOSS-001 Win 2012 r2 SharePoint 2010 10.10.10.4 10 TB 8 TBSQL-01, SQL-02
SQL-001 Win 2012 r2 SQL Server 2008 10.10.10.5 5 TB 3 TB SQL-002 Win 2012 r2 SQL Server 2008 10.10.10.6 5 TB 2 TB SQL-003 Win 2012 r2 SQL Server 2008 10.10.10.7 5 TB 2 TB SQL-004 Win 2012 r2 SQL Server 2008 10.10.10.8 5 TB 2 TB AD-001 Win 2012 r2 AD Domain Controller 10.10.10.9 3 TB 1 TB
Location Assets Threat (internal and external) Probability Impact
SFO-01 Orcl-001, Exch-001, SQL-001, SQL-002,SQL-003, SQL-004, SQL-005, FLS-001
Natural disaster - Earthquake Low HighNetwork failure Medium MediumPower failure High High
Class Description
Low impact All data and systems that are needed to achieve the business’ strategic objectives, but does not need to be immediately restored for the business to continue to operate.
Moderate impact All data and systems that are important to the achieving business objectives. The business can operate but in a diminished state.
High impact All data and systems that are critical to the business operations. Business comes to halt without the associated services.
Examples of an inventory, risk assessment, and classification.
Set objectives for each data set.
How much downtime can you tolerate?
How much data can you afford to lose?
How long do you need to retain data?
Source: Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC)
TIMELINE
Data RPO
Disaster
Occurs
O.S. RTO
Application RTO
Operating System
Application DataDataLoss
Disaster
Operating System Recovered
Recovered Data Available
RESTORE, RECOVER,RESTART
Application Downtime
RETENTIONS
More FewerFrequency of Retentions
Hourly
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
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DR Near Line
DR OfflineRete
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Map your recovery process.
Review your capabilities. File and folder-based backups
Image-based snapshots
Deduplication and replication
Single item recovery and virtual standby
Snapshots
Replication
Local backup
Offsite/cloud
Primary Site
Asynchronous Replication Tiered/Slow
Disk
Secondary Site
Backup Replica
BackupCopies
Cloud
Backup Replication
Tiered Disk
Selective Data-set
Off-siteTape
Sta
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Vir
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Data Analytics
Build a defense-in-depth.
Access
Near
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Second sites: Cold, warm, or hot?
Is off-site tape storage enough?
Failover and load-balancing
Duplicate the primary, or scale down?
Cloud, DRaaS and virtual standby options
Data readiness, is not just retention.
Identical Hardwar
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Cloud
Bare Metal
Restore
Dissimilar
Hardware
VirtualStandby
Backup
Server
Physical Server Virtual Machine SAN/NAS
Get buy-in and win confidence.
Involve stakeholders across the business
Clearly outline IT SLAs in case of failure
Detail what to do before you need to
Class Description Frequency
Walk-thru exercise Review the layout on contents of your DR plan As often as necessary to familiarize response teams and individuals with a documented plan or changes to a plan
Tabletop exercise Using a scenario, discuss the response and recovery activities of a documented plan
At least 4 times per year, or any time a change is made to the business or IT operating environment.
Component exercise
Physically exercise a component of a DR plan (e.g. testing automated communications services or work-from-home capabilities together with IT or partner capabilities)
At least twice per year or when a change is made to the business or IT operating environment
Full-scale simulationUsing a scenario, carry out the response and recovery activities of a DR plan the entire organization
At least once or twice per year or when a change is made to the business or IT operating environment
Classification Application Server/VM RTO RPOLow impact Filesystem FLS-001 24 hrs 24 hrsModerate impact SharePoint, Active Directory MOSS-001, AD-001, SQL-001, SQL-002 12 hrs 12 hrsHigh impact Exchange, Oracle Exch-001, Orcl-001 1 hr 10 min
Test your defenses in layers.
Your plan is alive. Test, test, and test again
Automate testing to add coverage
Build backup into the IT planning cycle