Transforming Your Offsite Backup into a Real Recovery Option

Steven AielloTechnical Architect

What’s the Problem?

• Data Sets are Growing Massively• Data is Becoming More Valuable• IT Increasingly Must Enable Business • How Are We Going to Protect it?

Today’s Agenda

1. Backup / Availability Spectrum Options

2. How backup is different than storage

3. Data Management Life Cycle

4. Backup Trends In The Market

5. Data Security & Data Durability

6. Validating Your Backup is Key

7. Current State & Desired State for Data Protection

8. How To Achieve Desired State

Data Protection Spectrum

ReplicationAvailability Backup Archive

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Amazon S3 / Glacier as Backup?

• 99.9% Uptime• 10.1 Minutes a Week of Downtime• Questionable Data Durability• How Valuable is Your Data?

• 3 to 5 Hours Response Time• No Recovery SLA• Charge to Reclaim Data• How Valuable is Your Data?

Glacier

How Valuable is an SLA?

• $100,000,000 = $274,000 a day• $11,416 an hour (24 x 7)

• $100,000,000 = $384,515 a day• $32,042 an hour (12 x 5)

• Amazon Has a Data Durability Rating That’s 6x More Reliable Than a Consumer Hard Drive

• How Valuable is Your Data?

What Is Amazon Good For?

Availability - Is Not Backup

• Designed for 99.9999% Uptime• Very Expensive to Implement• Limited Physical Distance (50 miles)• Synchronous Replication• Zero to Seconds of Down Time a Year• Very Short to No Data History

Replication - Is Not Backup

• Designed for 99.999% Uptime• Moderately Expensive to Implement• Longer Distance (hundreds of miles)• Asynchronous Replication• Seconds to Minutes of Down Time• Moderate Data Retentions• Minimizes RTOs / RPOs

Archive - Not Backup

Glacier

• The Business May Never Need It• If Someone Needs It, It’s Lawyers• You Can Wait Days for Access• You Will Pay to Access it Because

You Most Likely Wont

Backup - What Is It?

• It’s The Sweet Spot• Inexpensive Relatively Speaking• Backup Should be Granular • Backup Should Provide a File History• Backup Should Have a Catalog• Backup Should be Durable & Secure• Backup Should Not Be Managed By Users• Backup Should… Restore

Backup - It’s not EFSS

• EFSS Is Great… For Mobility• No Revision History• Data Corruption is Everywhere• Responsibility Managed By Users• No Data Protection

Backup - Not Snapshots

• Snapshots Are Not Granular • Snapshots Are Not File History• Snapshots Have No Catalog• Snapshots Can Be Disruptive• No Encryption or Data Protection

Backup - Encrypted

• Backup Should be Durable • Backup Should be Secure• Backup Should be Encrypted

• In Transit • At Rest

• Backups Should be Offsite

Backup - Data DurabilityThere’s Only One Bullet On Purpose!

• Backup Should be Durable…

Avamar - Secret SauceNo Deduplication Database (or Corruption)

No Database / Configuration Gremlins!

Poor Myles…

Avamar - Secret SauceSHA-1 HASH Algorithm Verification

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Avamar - Secret SauceVariable Length Block Deduplication

• Day 1

• Day 2

• Day 3

• Day 4

Not Changed

Changed

Avamar - Business BenefitsWhat Does it Mean for My Business?

• Day 1• Day 2• Day 3• Day 4

• Reliable Backups / Reliable Restores

• Meet Compliance Requirements

• Minimized Backup Windows

• Deduced Operational Complexity

• Lower Over All TCO

• Protect the Business!

Backup - And Recovery

On-Premises Off-Premises (Online Tech)

Steven Aiellosteven.aiello@thinkahead.com