Security and Backup

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Security and Backup
Presented by Brandon Nohr Brian Hershey
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Overview

• Security Presented by Brian Hershey
• The scary world where we work and play
• How to protect yourself
• Backup Technologies Presented by Brandon Nohr
• Tape vs. Disk Based Backup
• Virtualization

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Backups are you Protected?
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Disaster Recovery

• Definition (Department of Information
  Technology Michigan)
• Disaster Recovery (DR) is a coordinated activity
  to enable the recovery of IT/business systems due
  to a disruption. DR can be achieved by restoring
  IT/business operations at an alternate location,
  recovering IT/business operations using alternate
  equipment, and/or performing some or all of the
  affected business processes using manual methods.

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Agenda

• Current Backup Technologies
• Statistics
• Next Generation Backup Technologies
• What are we looking for?
• Breakdown the differences
• Managing a more complex network
• Summary

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Current Backup Technology

• Tape Backup
• Up Side of Tape Backup
• Industry Standard
• Easy Offsite Storage
• Down Side of Tape Backup
• Slow
• Long Backup times and longer restore times
• Need to replace tapes regularly
• Not Reliable

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The Reality

• Statistics (Provided by Symantec)
• 85 of Systems are not backed up
• 53 of Loss Due to H/W or S/W
• 38 of Loss Due to Human Error
• 17-40 of Tape Restores Fail

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Looking Forward

• What are we looking for in Backup Solution?
• Fast
• Reliable
• Scalable
• Easy to use

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Future of Backup

• Improving data backup and recovery needs to be a
  high priority.
• Rapid System recovery is just as important as
  data protection its self.

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Image vs. Disk Based

• Image Based Backup
• A snapshot of the entire machine or drive.
• Disk Based Backup
• Media on which the backups are saved.

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Disk Based Backup

• Storage Media
• NAS or SAN
• Network Storage
• Online (In the cloud)
• USB/Firewire
• Rev Drive
• Odyssey Drive
• Flash Memory
• DVD

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Image Based Backup

• Image Based Backup (Server and Desktop
  Environments)
• Select Recovery Point and Restore
• Dissimilar Hardware
• Exchange
• Databases
• Virtualized while rebuilding hardware

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How to Manage it all

• Managed Services
• 24/7 Monitoring of every system on your network
• Machine health, Services, files systems,
  Exchange, Databases, Virus and Spyware
  Protection, and Patch Management.

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Summary

• Disk/Image based backup allows you to
• More Flexible Media
• Take Images or snap shots of you machine
• Searchable
• Virtual Machines
• Continuous backup for you files, Exchange and
  Databases

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