1. Peace of Mind Innovative’s Backup Tape Verification Service John Culshaw University of Colorado at Boulder

2. Why Bother? ensure backups have meaningful data test system restore capability meet audit/risk assessment requirements peace of mind

3. How It Works Library sends verified FULL backup tape to Innovative Innovative restores your system on a server in Emeryville

4. What Innovative Does System checks on data and indexes Provides your library with the server IP address so that YOU can connect via telnet and Millennium to test the system

5. Chinook Backup Plan 2 tape drives on server FULL unattended backups daily (except Saturday and Monday) DAILY unattended on Saturday DAILY attended on Monday

6. Chinook Backup Plan Verified FULL sent to DocuVault weekly 3 weeks worth of tapes stored offsite System too large for 20/40 gb tapes Capability for attended image backup separately

7. How Long Did It Take? Placed order Innovative contacts to schedule Send tape to Innovative “Restored” server ready within 1-2 weeks Negotiate length of time “restored” server is available for you to test

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12. What To Look For? Chinook Oversight Group developed a list of the functionality we wanted to test Systems Department either performed or coordinated the test Has all of your data been restored properly? In the case of emergency, what would you need a restored system to do immediately?

13. Things to Remember You’re working on your restored server – use your regular logins Don’t mix up PRODUCTION server and RESTORED server You can’t hurt your database – you’re not on your production server Some things will not work

14. Advice Invest in this service Develop your own list of what functionality needs to be tested on the remote server Understand and follow your backup plan Plan this when you have time to test Maintain a backup log

15. Advice Clean tape drives regularly Replace tapes regularly Store backups in a secure, off-site location Do NOT provide broad access to test server

16. Thank you! Questions?