1. BACKUPS What is your plan???

2. Plan in Writing “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. The 5 W’s Who What When Where Why

4. Why? The average lifespan of a hard drive is 3 years

5. Plan B, C, D… Cover as many “What if’s” as you can.

6. Backup Plan For Your Backup A – Daily backup procedure B – Backup operator is out C – What if it fails? D – Disaster recovery

7. The Changing Face of Backup

8. SQL Structured Query Language

9. How Does This Change Things You can not run a live backup The data must be exported

10. Backup Destinations Tapes USB Flash drives Portable Hard Drives SSD vs Spinning Hard Drive Cloud

11. Backup Destinations Tapes USB Flash drives Portable Hard Drives Cloud Holds a lot of data Easy to use, inexpensive Easy to use, lots of space Happens continuously Holds a lot of data Easy to use, inexpensive Easy to use, lots of space Happens continuously

12. Backup Destinations Tapes USB Flash drives Portable Hard Drives Cloud Fragile, slow Can be Slow, Drive letter can change Can be damaged with a drop Depends on internet connection Fragile, slow Can be Slow, Drive letter can change Can be damaged with a drop Depends on internet connection

13. Checking Your Backup Know how to check your backup log Record when and who checks it Look for trends in your backup

14. Restoring Data How do you verify a backup? Can you do a selective restore? How long does a restore take?

15. Security How much security do you need? Physical Controlling Access Encryption AES, Serpent, Twofish, RSA, Elliptic Curve, Tiple DES

16. What Is Next Everything in the cloud? SQL is here to stay It will always be evolving