Most businesses secure their information infrastructure by regularly backing it up onto tape. Some have gone further, enhancing their backup strategy with expensive disk arrays and mirroring. If an earthquake, flood, blackout or hard-disk failure should catch them by surprise, these backups would ensure the survival of their information. Should human or software error corrupt their data, they would simply reach for a recent backup, which would help them get back on their feet. But would simply having these regular backups stashed away someplace safe be enough?
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Eliminating Downtime: The Continuous-Backup Revolution
Posted by: Leonid Shtilman April 8, 2004 06:15 AMMost businesses secure their information infrastructure by regularly backing it up onto tape. Some have gone further, enhancing their backup strategy with expensive disk arrays and mirroring. If an earthquake, flood, blackout or hard-disk failure should catch them by surprise, these backups would ensure the survival of their information. Should human or software error corrupt their data, they would simply reach for a recent backup, which would help them get back on their feet. But would simply having these regular backups stashed away someplace safe be enough?