By Jason Buffington Wiley Publishing, Inc| English | 530 pages | PDF | 7.874 KB | Download | Password: datacenter When an operating system or an application is initially created (version 1), there are lots of features that cannot be included. After all, if the manufacturer waited until every feature was included, it would never ship. Instead, it is released as a hopefully high-quality product but with several missing features or use scenarios that are left for third-party partners to fill. Certainly, that was true for most aspects of data protection or resiliency in regard to Windows. For the first several years, from Windows NT 3.1 through Windows Server 2003, an ecosystem developed that offered richer backup solutions and more flexible data replication and failover solutions to meet the needs of Microsoft customers. But around 2003, some of those needs started being met by the core products themselves. This included …
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Determine Your Backup Process
There are nearly as many ways to back up your business data as there are ways to lose the data and require that backup. Products available to perform archiving duties range from the venerable tape Backup to newer technologies such as hard drive, CD, and DVD, or even remote storage facilities, no matter which you select the principles of data backup are the same, and it’s important to understand which data needs to get backed up, how often, and for how long. The first step is pure common sense, yet it is frequently skipped,Conduct a thorough analysis and inventory of existing systems with a focus on data storage, it will be tedious, but you need to catalog the Location, owner, and importance of each bit of data. The alternative is to back up everything, wasting time by writing extraneous files and wasting money on extra media. That total backup solution …
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Storing your entire digital life on a PC or laptop has never been easier. However, keeping you’re treasured Memories, digital entertainment, and crucial documents in one place also means you’re in constant danger of losing it all in the blink of an eye. That’s why protecting your data with regular backups is as important as ever Without a reliable backup, data loss is painful, costly, and often permanent Your data isn’t just a bunch of electronic bits, it’s your life! And you could lose it all in an instant. Hard drives crash, laptops disappear, people delete things they shouldn’t have it happens all the time. Sure, you can spend the time and money to download all your favorite MP3’s and TV shows again. But what about your digital photos, college term papers? Without a backup of your irreplaceable data and memories, once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.
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