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It is Disaster Recovery review season again here at This Old Datacenter and reviewing our plans sparked the idea to outline some of the modern strategies for those who are new to the game or looking to modernize. I’m continually amazed by the number of people who I talk to that are using modern compute methodologies (virtualization on premises, partner IaaS, public cloud) but are still using the same backup systems they were using in the 2000s.
In this post I’m going to talk about some basic strategies using Veeam Backup and Replication because that is primarily what I use, but all of these are capable with any of the current data backup vendors with varying levels of advantages and disadvantages per vendor. The important part is to understand the different ways about protecting your data to start with and then pick a vendor that fits your needs.
One constant that you will see here is the idea of each strategy consisting of 2 parts. A local backup first to handle basic things like a failing VM, file restore, and other things that aren’t responding to all systems down. Secondly then archiving that backup to somewhere outside of your primary
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