BACKUPS What is your plan???

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

The 5 W’s Who What When Where Why

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

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

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

The Changing Face of Backup

SQL Structured Query Language

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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