As a #businesscontinuity professional, I have always recommended offline #backups - that is, backups that are nowhere near your primary on-cloud or off-cloud environment. UniSuper, a $135 billion pension firm, learned this lesson the hard way when a Google Cloud "event" wiped out everything - their compute environment, data, and backups. While I recommend OpenText Carbonite cloud-to-cloud backup software, the important point here is that you need something, anything -- that works -- to take and maintain immutable backups as far away from your primary compute environment as possible. https://lnkd.in/gjBurbEm
As a veteran of the storage industry could not agree more, I run with a minimum of 5 backups across different mediums.
The importance of having offline backups cannot be overstated, as illustrated by the unfortunate incident with UniSuper. It's essential to look beyond just cloud solutions and consider versatile options like hybrid approaches to ensure data is always recoverable. What steps do you recommend for evaluating the effectiveness of different backup solutions?