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Welcome back. As promised, here is the follow-up to the first installment, Why are My Backups so Big?
Switching views from the Macro to the Micro, here is a more specific example of how daily change in data may affect the size of the backups:
In one day, the following events take place:
Jorge AzcuyAs blogged about several times before, Compuquip’s Cloud Backup Solution has been a resounding success. Not only for Compuquip and our partners at Evault, but for the customers that are on this solution as well, the main benefit for them being the reliability of the service: nearly 2 years into this offering our Backup Success Rate is still over 99%, while the success rate for Restores is still 100%. Numbers like that are impossible to achieve over the long term with traditional tape-based backups solutions or even other appliance-based backup solutions employed in the market today.
Jorge Azcuy
Edition 11 | December 2011
Welcome to the 11th edition of Quip Notes, the newsletter presented to you by Compuquip!
To download a printable version of the newsletter, click Quip Notes December 2011
Bill, the IT Director at a law firm, received the emergency call at 6am. A pipe had ruptured in the firm’s building and the server room was flooded. Bill knew it was going to be a long few days. First he’d have to repair or probably replace the hardware, spend hours rebuilding the system software, retrieve the right tapes from an offsite storage facility and then restore the data. Theoretically, it would take several long days of effort but should all work just fine. Unfortunately for Bill, reality set in. After replacing the hardware and installing the system software, many of the firm’s data tapes were unreadable and they lost 50% of their data. Read more »
Lauren QuinnThe case for disk backup versus tape backup is clear. Tape-based backup systems, are built on decades old technology and can’t compete with modern disk-based backup systems. Disk-based backup systems offer superior performance in terms of: Read more »
