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Types of Backup: Select Wisely to Avoid Costly Data Loss

Zerto

Backup technology has existed as long as data has needed to be recovered. We’ve seen countless iterations of backup solutions, media types, and ways of storing backup data. This last decade, many new backup tools have come out. Backup Appliances. Software-based Backup.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

By using the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper to design your DR strategy, your workloads can remain available despite disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. DR strategies: Choosing backup and restore. Implementing backup and restore.

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Pure Storage Ransomware Protection for FlashRecover

Pure Storage

One of the most common ransomware attacks we see today is the destruction of backup data. The ability to recover quickly from this sort of destructive attack is a huge question mark for traditional backup systems or any purpose-built backup solution. What’s New in FlashRecover//S? What Is SafeMode in FlashBlade? .

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

Figure 2 shows the four strategies for DR that are highlighted in the DR whitepaper. If data needs to be restored from backup, this can increase the recovery point (and data loss). If such a disaster results in deleted or corrupted data, it then requires use of point-in-time recovery from backup to a last known good state.

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The Time Is Now—Get Out of Ransomware Jail!

Zerto

Easily perform failover and backup testing quickly, without disruption. Whitepaper. Lower risk with instant, non-disruptive testing. Test often, test anytime. Zerto allows you to take the guesswork and risk out of the process with instant, non-disruptive testing. Get out of ransomware jail and try the Zerto Free Edition. Sophos Ltd.

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Why Real-Time Encryption Detection Matters

Zerto

Existing solutions typically scan backup copies, so the data is already hours old to start with (likely from last night’s backup job) and the malware scanning process itself takes quite a few hours added on top. This means that in a typical attack, the full encryption detonation would be estimated to take 2 hours and 26 minutes.

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How to Protect Your Database with Zerto

Zerto

It is important to note that an Oracle database must be placed into hot backup mode to achieve database application consistency. Hot backup mode freezes the system change number (SCN) in the redo logs, and it gives Oracle a specific application-consistent location to which to recover.