Best practices for optimizing data backups -
pros Channel and industry experts offer techniques proven data backup to ensure that your customers will suffer severe disasters.
By James E. Gaskin
as there are users and data files, there will be backup issues. "Nobody really has no idea backup," said Patrick Corrigan, senior analyst at Storage Strategies NOW research firm. "Backup management is difficult for small and medium enterprises and even large enterprises." 
Several studies in recent years have revealed that almost a third of all small businesses feel that they need help from their backups. That said known channel pros that one-third are in denial. And with so many backup choices, including the cloud, SMEs are just as confused.
"There are a number of things going on," said Corrigan. "The transition to online is good, especially as a supplement for small businesses. But companies based on nothing but online backup systems is put at risk, with all their eggs in one basket. Want a phased approach. Use online if it corresponds, not only online. Time to restore a large amount of online data backup can be very long. "
Of course, you can educate customers about RTO (Recovery Time Objective, a real weakness for cloud backup services, as noted Corrigan) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective). But better" put together a good plan for your customer to ensure that their data is protected, "said Corrigan.
sometimes this plan includes the strip, and sometimes not." We have not sold a tape backup system for years, and we will not even be in this band to a customer, "said Chris Pace, founder of the Technology Centre, a reseller of 45 people with headquarters in Houston, with satellite offices in Dallas, San Antonio and La new Orleans. "We lead with ExaGrid, a backup appliance that dedupe and compression, and can be stacked to scale if necessary."
a Pace customers used to label 400 LTO 4 strips each quarter, and backup tasks took 100 percent of the time. "After we have ExaGrid and got rid of the band," says Pace, "backup management takes 20 percent of his time, and that is for the locations of more than 30 that centralize their backups in their offices Houston and Dallas. "But the band refuses to die, often for good reasons. Pace has other clients, public enterprises that use tape to archive information to meet compliance requirements.
many companies that have never used the band go straight to disk to disk backup systems, Corrigan said, citing research findings SSG-NOW, while those who already use the band retain for archiving, or perhaps off-site storage. "the vendors say the band will last 30 years, but we all struggled with tape. External hard drives used for backup archive are good for about five years. Until then, you'll want to move to a new disk technology anyway. "
Each backup jockey has stories on cassettes or unreadable backups filled with errors. Newest tape systems do a much better reliable restoration work data through the tape machine that made the backup. restore different tape machines, however, introduces errors due to different tape read / write heads and tolerances not fit in the drive mechanisms. high-end tape systems provide results play in these situations.
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