Wednesday 18 April 2012

Whitepaper - Basics for Database Technology - Backup and Recovery

Backup and restore whitepaper
The second whitpaper in Phiz's series is now available for download. Based on true stories, it illustrates how essential it is to business not only to be able to backup but also to be able restore efficiently. Read now...

It is fundamental to today's IT driven world that data is saved to backup from where it can be restored should anything go wrong. Many businesses small and large have thrived from the massive industry that now exists in order to fulfil the needs of the ever-increasing data load to be backed up.
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Tuesday 17 April 2012

The problem with emergency drills

Backup and Restore emergency procedures image
What’s wrong with emergency drills?

Probably we’ve all, at some point in time, had to take part in an emergency drill. The inconvenient fire drill, the lifeboat drill or the restore from backup (I hope you have all practised this one).

What’s wrong with emergency drills? Well almost without exception there is one thing missing;

THE EMERGENCY!

We all react differently to situations and when we are practising in a controlled manner, some of us tend to do things correctly, while others are rather blasé about the whole thing and yet others do it because they have to but believe it will never happen to them.