Many people in the Data Protection field talk about “backups” like “insurance” – where you pay a little (cost and effort) so that you won’t have to pay a lot (lost data/productivity) when calamity strikes.
If that is how backup/recovery works, then what if you paid for it like insurance? Insurance wouldn’t be affordable if you paid in advance for the worst calamity possible (regardless of whether it happened or not) – but that is how you pay for backups, regardless of how much data you need to recover (or not).
What if you paid for backups and restores, like you pay for insurance? Check out this 5m video:
As always, thanks for watching.
Originally posted on my personal self-managed blog while at ESG (TechnicalOptimist.com), reposted on DPM for archival reference. Broken links are likely due to ESG content being dropped between its acquisition by TechTarget and their acquisition by Omdia.