7 Deadly Sins of Data
Protection
Rick Glynn
Data Protection Sales
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
Recovery is all that matters.
1 in 5 recovery jobs fail to
meet their recovery SLAs1
Know for sure that your backup
file is completely recoverable.
Use automated recovery
verification technology.
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Source: ESG “The Modernization of Data Protection” 2012
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
Static
Does not
change over
time
Business Vital
Mission Critical
Is vital to the
daily operations
of the business
If lost or
unavailable or
unavailable—for
even short
periods of
time— damage
will occur
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Deadly Sin #3:
Fail to understand
your organization’s
tolerance for data
loss and
downtime.
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Instead, solicit feedback from cross-functional
groups outside of IT
Align recovery objectives to your organization’s business goals
• 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
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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
Classifying Your
Data/Applications
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Requirements
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Approaches
Business
Vital
Static
Mission
Critical
•
•
RTO < 72 Hours
RPO < 1 Day
•
•
RTO 6-24 Hours
RPO 2-12 Hours
•
•
RTO < 5 Minutes
RPO < 5 Minutes
•
Strict regulations
•
Some regulations
•
Limited regulations
•
•
Back up to tape
Archive data
•
•
•
•
Fast recovery
Disk-based backup
Backup to tape
Bare metal recovery
•
•
•
Fastest recovery
Disk-based backup
Bare metal recovery
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Deadly Sin #5:
Only store one
copy of your
backup data—
onsite.
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Instead, establish an offsite DR strategy
Will you be able to meet your recovery SLAs in the event of a site disaster?
• 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
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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
Employ deduplication to
reduce backup storage
footprint.
Save on costs by
employing D2D2T,
archiving older data to less
expensive storage
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Deadly Sin #7:
Think you’re
done after you
test your plan.
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Instead, continually test and update your plan.
 Test…
 Test Again…
 And Test Yet Again
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Recap:
Bare Metal
Avoid
Recovery
the 7 deadly
(BMR)sins
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
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Backup and
recovery
methods
available
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Traditional backup and recovery
The “Tried & True”
• 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
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Continuous data protection (CDP)
Ideal for “mission-critical” application data
• 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
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Replication
Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)
Minimize network traffic using WAN-optimization techniques
• 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
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Data
Bare Metal
deduplication
Recovery (BMR)
Reduce your backup storage footprint by 90-95%
• 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
First Full Backup
Daily
Backup
Daily
Backup
Second Full Backup
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How Dell Can
Help
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Dell Backup & Recovery
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across a wide range
of platforms and
applications.
Protect continuously,
move anywhere,
recover everything.
Back up and
restore VMs at
same time –
without limits.
Optimize storage and
replication
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