On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 05:59:02PM -0400, Alvin Starr wrote: > Rotating backup media is becoming a thing of the past. > A lot of organizations are moving to cloud backup or backing up to some > NSA/SAN or other connected device. > In an environment where changing disks/tapes is hard like in a data centre > then the single backup device is attractive. > > I do work for a backup provider and they have a large number of companies > who in essence have a single point of failure for their backups. > > For better or for worse people are moving their backups offsite but into a > single location.
Well at the very least you should use multiple remote instances that you can mount and backup to. If you have a single remote storage pool for backups, then you do in fact have zero backups while doing a new backup. There is no reason you could not have multiple separate storage pools that you only ever mount one of at a time to avoid anything stupid wiping out old backups while doing a new one. But I supose this cloud stuff really is making people stupid. They can't imagine anything could go wrong with the cloud. > True enough but testing your recovery processes is something that is seldom > done. > Taking systems offline to do a full recovery is just too big a pain. Yep, but it means you very well might not have a backup. If it really mattered you would have spare hardware for testing and disaster recovery already, in which case the test would not be that hard. > You also have to do the recovery testing on a regular basis. For sure. Even less likely to be done than testing it once. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
