Backups

New thoughts, new protocols

[tangor]

Your site is only as good as your most recent backup.

As we all know, the world of backup is changing, and not just in obvious ways such as the move to disk and cloud-based backup, the adoption of deduplication, the need to copy, back up and restore virtual machines, and so on.

First, flash memory and the wider availability of snapshots and replication means that other elements of the storage infrastructure are taking on more of the responsibility for data protection. Features such as replicated snapshots are now faster and better, albeit more expensive, ways to recover a failed system than traditional backup.

[theregister.co.uk...]
Some refreshing thoughts on current technology, methods and protocols for dong, and cloning, backups.