7 Deadly Sins of Data Protection

Rick GlynnData Protection Sales

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Agenda

• 7 Seven Deadly Sins of Data Protection

• Tips for Avoiding the 7 Sins

• Backup & Recovery Methods You Can Use

• How Dell Can Help

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“Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.”

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Deadly Sin #1:

Focus on backup, not recovery

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Instead, shift the focus onto recovery

Know for sure that your backup file is completely recoverable.

Source: ESG “The Modernization of Data Protection” 2012

Recovery is all that matters.

1 in 5 recovery jobs fail to meet their recovery SLAs1

Use automated recovery verification technology.

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Deadly Sin #2:

Treat all data equally.

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Instead, classify data and applications

Not all data has the same criticality and frequency of change

If lost or unavailable or unavailable—for even short periods of time— damage will

occur

Mission Critical

Is vital to the daily

operations of the business

Business Vital

Does not change over

time

Static

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Deadly Sin #3:

Fail to understand your organization’s tolerance for data loss and downtime.

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• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)– The tolerable amount of time elapsed between a loss or disaster

and the restoration of business operations.– It is the time required to physically recover the data or application

and have it ready for use

• Recovery Point Objective (RPO)– The point in time since the last backup – For example, if you recover a file that was backed up yesterday

then your recovery point is one day

Instead, solicit feedback from cross-functional groups outside of ITAlign recovery objectives to your organization’s business goals

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Deadly Sin #4:

Believe one approach fits all.

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Instead, think tiered recovery

Apply the right approaches to meet your requirements

Static Business Vital

Mission Critical

Data ProtectionRequirements

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Classifying Your Data/Applications

• Back up to tape• Archive data

• RTO 6-24 Hours• RPO 2-12 Hours

• Some regulations

• RTO < 5 Minutes• RPO < 5

Minutes

• Limited regulations

• Fastest recovery• Disk-based

backup• Bare metal

recovery

• Fast recovery• Disk-based

backup• Backup to tape• Bare metal

recovery

• RTO < 72 Hours• RPO < 1 Day

• Strict regulations

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Deadly Sin #5:

Only store one copy of your backup data—onsite.

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• How will you get your data offsite?– Tape– Replication– Clustering

• Where should you send your data?– Cold DR Site– Warm DR Site– Hot DR Site

Instead, establish an offsite DR strategyWill you be able to meet your recovery SLAs in the event of a site disaster?

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Deadly Sin #6:

Store too much backup data, for far too long.

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Instead, optimize data retention

Reduce costs and boost performance

Save on costs by employing D2D2T, archiving older data to less expensive storage

Employ deduplication to reduce backup storage footprint.

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Deadly Sin #7:

Think you’re done after you test your plan.

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Test… Test Again… And Test Yet Again

Instead, continually test and update your plan.

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1. Focus on recovery

2. Classify your data and applications

3. Solicit feedback from cross-functional groups outside of IT

4. Think tiered recovery

5. Establish an offsite DR strategy

6. Optimize data retention

7. Continually test and update your data protection plan

Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)Recap: Avoid the 7 deadly sins

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Backup and recovery methods available

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• Backs up data stored on application, database, and file server data

• Schedule backups and create policies– Run full, incremental, and differential backups

• Back up to tape or disk

• Typically uses server/client architecture

Traditional backup and recovery

The “Tried & True”

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• Continuously captures all changes on the protected server

• Eliminates backup windows

• Super granular recovery points—restore to practically any point in time

• Fast recovery of data

• Excellent if you:– Can’t afford prolonged downtime– Can’t afford to lose mission-critical data

Continuous data protection (CDP)

Ideal for “mission-critical” application data

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• Gain redundancy by sending a copy of data from one source to a target

• Used for improved reliability, fault-tolerance and/or ensured accessibility

• Replication over the WAN ensures disaster recovery

• Different from “backup” because replicas are frequently updated and quickly lose any historical state

Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)Replication

Minimize network traffic using WAN-optimization techniques

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Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)Data deduplication

First Full Backup Daily Backup

Daily Backup

Second Full Backup

• The process of examining a data set or byte stream at the sub-file level and storing and/or sending only unique data.

• Duplicate data segments are replaced with a pointer to the first occurrence of the data

Reduce your backup storage footprint by 90-95%

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How Dell Can Help

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Dell Backup & Recovery

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Protect continuously,

move anywhere, recover

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same time – without limits.

Protect large volumes of data

across a wide range of

platforms and applications.

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or less

Scaleto protect data on 100s and 1000s servers

Generate recovery points every

5 mins

DR4100

Optimize storage and replication

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