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Modern Data Protection
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Modern Data Protection

by W. Curtis Preston
April 2021
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
12h 22m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Risks to Your Data: Why We Back Up

You might think you don’t need this chapter. You know why we back up data, and you don’t need someone convincing you that backing it up is an important thing to do. Nonetheless, there might be a few reasons for backing up that you might not have thought of. These will be helpful in meetings that start with the question, “Why do we spend so much money on backup and disaster recovery?”

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No one cares if you can backup. Only if you can restore.

—Mr. Backup

This chapter covers a variety of reasons why we need backup and disaster recovery (DR), listed in the order they are most likely to happen. Let’s start by looking at the most common reason why you’ll find yourself looking for your backup manual: Someone did something wrong. A natural disaster might not be likely in your case, but a human disaster most certainly is.

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