Disk-Based Backup & Recovery Solution: Making Sense of Your Options

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Disk-Based Backup & Recovery:
Making Sense of Your Options
White Paper Datalink Product Management March 2005 Disk-Based Backup & Recovery: Making Sense of Your Options
Table of contents Table of contents...............................................................................................................................2 Abstract..........................................................................................................................................................4 Data growth and the organization's pain points......................................................................4 Tape or disk solutions...................................................................................................................4 Discussion ........................................................................................................................................4 Audience...........................................................................................................................................4 Introduction...................................................................................................................................................5 Data recovery performance and reliability....................................................................................5 Tape: the traditional approach to data recovery ....................................................................5 Why disk makes sense for data recovery now........................................................................5 Disk as a solution today................................................................................................................6 Paper topics .....................................................................................................................................6 Data Recovery Bottlenecks .......................................................................................................................7 Impact of bottlenecks on recovery operations............................................................................7 Bottlenecks ......................................................................................................................................7 Potential bottleneck areas............................................................................................................7 Improper assessment of bottlenecks .........................................................................................8 Enhanced Data Recovery Approaches ....................................................................................................9 Pain points and project objectives...................................................................................................9 What is enhanced data recovery?...............................................................................................9 Analyzing the organization's pain points....................................................................................9 Backup window...............................................................................................................................9 Recovery time objectives (RTO)............................................................................................. 10 Recovery point objective (RPO).............................................................................................. 10 Decentralized data ...................................................................................................................... 11 Rising costs and flat budgets ..................................................................................................... 11 Can disk play a role? ................................................................................................................... 11 Disk can add efficiencies ............................................................................................................ 11 Can disk replace tape in data recovery operations? ................................................................ 12 Will disk replace tape?................................................................................................................ 12 Archive........................................................................................................................ [download for more]