Why You Need to Rethink Traditional Backup Strategies

1. Why You Need to Rethink Traditional Backup Strategies Part of our ‘No Train Wrecks’ Education Series Presented by:

2. Overview When I ask small to medium size business owners about their backup strategies they usually reply that they are backing up their data either to some sort of external hard drive on site or they use a company like Mozy or Carbonite to backup to the Cloud. I congratulate them for actually having some sort of backup plan and then ask: • How often they test their backups • How long it takes to restore their data from backup • How long it would take to replace or rebuild a server • How they continue to run their business during a server outage Now it starts to get a bit fuzzy. SherpaData IT Management Services

3. Overview continued Since this presentation is targeted toward business owners and stakeholders, my goal is to show from a business perspective why traditional backup strategies are simply not adequate to ensure your company stays up and running in today’s fast paced business environments. Let’s start with the basic RTO and RPO. SherpaData IT Management Services

4. 2 Key Metrics: RTO and RPO RTO – Recovery Time Objective • This objective is a measurement of how long can you be without that server. Put another way, how much time from when the server goes offline to when that server is fully operational is acceptable from a business perspective . • This is typically measured in minutes, hours and days. SherpaData IT Management Services

5. 2 Key Metrics: RTO and RPO RPO – Recovery Point Objective • This objective is a measurement of how much data is acceptable to lose or have to re-create. • Typically this is the data that has been entered or modified since the last backup and when the asset became unavailable. • Often, this is last night’s backup. SherpaData IT Management Services

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7. Server becomes unavailable due to: • Hardware Failure • Theft • System Corruption • Fire, Flood, Disaster SherpaData IT Management Services

8. Traditional Remediation Steps • Replace or Repair Failed Server • Source parts or new server • Shipping time • Time Cost = hours to days • Re-Install the Operating System • Format hard drives • Install Operating System • Install device drivers • Time Cost = hours • Apply Service Packs and Patches • Time Cost = hours • Re-install and configure Business Apps • Accounting packages, CRM, Time Tracking apps, etc. • Patch business apps to latest version • Time Cost = hours • Continued next slide SherpaData IT Management Services

9. Traditional Remediation Steps Cont. • Re-Install Backup Application or Agent • Patch Backup Application to latest release • Restore Data using Backup Application • Time Cost = Depends on: • Whether there is a local copy of the data or it resides in the cloud only. • Amount of data to restore • Executive Summary – Most likely you will be unable to use the failed server for at least 1 day, realistically 2 or more days. SherpaData IT Management Services

10. Traditional Data Backups You do nightly backups at 1:00 am. Your business opens at 8:00 am and your server crashes at 2:30 pm on a Monday. (Are you able to continue doing business using paper or other methods? ) Your server is replaced and online Tuesday at 6:30 pm with data restored from the Monday 1:00 am backup. Are you able to recover the data lost from Monday 8:00am to 2:30pm that wasn’t in the last backup from paper or other records? What are the costs associated with manually re-entering/recreating thatdata as well as re-entering everything from when the server went down till it came back on line? SherpaData IT Management Services

11. Imagine if you had the capability to: • Limit your server downtime to minutes instead of hours or days. • Recover data to the last 15 minutes instead of last nights backup. • Access your servers, even if your office was destroyed due to fire, flood or other disaster. SherpaData IT Management Services

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13. Virtualization -A high level overview • Virtualization is the keystone that allows you to recover from any type of server failure almost instantly. • Siris takes your backup image and converts it into a virtual machine (VM). When needed, the Siris device mounts and boots this VM. This VM becomes the temporary production server. • This VM is a fully functional, running clone of your server, allowing you to continue working until your physical server is repaired/replaced. SherpaData IT Management Services

14. Virtualization continued • While you are running on the VM, it is being backed up so there is no data loss. • When your physical server is ready, you take the latest backup image from the VM and restore it to your physical server using Bare Metal Restore (BMR). • This restore includes all changes made to the VM since it became the production server. SherpaData IT Management Services

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16. Why SIRIS is different • Inverse Chain Technology – eliminates dependency on long chains of incremental backups. • Verification of successful backup conversion to VM via screenshot of Cntrl-Alt-Del logon page sent to your inbox. • Local and off-site copies. Offsite copies are encrypted and compressed and replicated between two SAS 70 type data-centers. SherpaData IT Management Services

17. To learn more or request a demonstration, please contact: Michael Irwin 610-245-DATA / 610-245-3282 mirwin@sherpadata.com SherpaData IT Management Services