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5 Common Backup and Recovery Mistakes
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Posted by: DBTK in Best Practices Topic: Infrastructure
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the first option. Know how long it will take to recover and basic transfer rates. Remember recovery time will be limited by how fast data can be written to disk and a conservative estimate is about 20 gigabytes per hour if not less. So, lets’ do the math, if you have a 100 GB of data backed up that is going to take roughly 5 hours to recover.
5. “I Got the Print Servers Recovered First”
Wonderful, now if I only had an e-mail or file I could access to print. Recover what is critical to resuming business operations first, then worry about the end users being able to print or view their archived documents later. Restoring communication like Microsoft Exchange, websites or any other functions that allow the company to communicate and create revenue should be top of the list. Second priority should be other tier 2 or 3 operations that are less critical to the operations of the business. This comes down to knowing what the business continuity plan requires, what servers and functions are identified as being most critical and testing the recovery process often.
In Summary, Don’t be “That Guy” who thought he was covered. “Be the ball, Danny!” and become one with your backup and recovery procedure through effective planning, validation and recovery exercises that allow the team to be successful.
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