{"id":1461,"date":"2009-12-11T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2009-12-11T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:49:21","slug":"this-holiday-season-give-your-inner-geek-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/this-holiday-season-give-your-inner-geek-a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"This holiday season, give your inner geek a gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it approaches that time for giving, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that with just a simple purchase, you can simultaneously give yourself and me a present. I&#8217;m assuming regular readers of the blog would like to thank me, and the best thanks I could get this year would be to get a nice spike in sales in <a title=\"Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisesystemsbackup.com\" target=\"_blank\">my book<\/a> before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; is a book aimed not just at companies only now starting to look at implementing a comprehensive backup system. It&#8217;s equally aimed at companies who are already doing enterprise backup and need that extra direction to move from a collection of backup products to an actual backup <em>system<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a backup system? At the most simple, it&#8217;s an environment that is geared towards recovery. However, it&#8217;s not just having the right software and the right hardware \u2013 it&#8217;s also about having:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The right policies<\/li>\n<li>The right procedures<\/li>\n<li>The right people<\/li>\n<li>The right attitude<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most organisations actually do pretty well in relation to getting the right software and the right hardware. However, that&#8217;s only about 40% of achieving a backup system. It&#8217;s the human components &#8211; that last remaining 60% that&#8217;s far more challenging and important to get right. For instance, at your company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are backups seen as an &#8220;IT&#8221; function?<\/li>\n<li>Are backups assigned to junior staff?<\/li>\n<li>Are results not checked until there&#8217;s a recovery required?<\/li>\n<li>Are backups only tested in an adhoc manner?<\/li>\n<li>Are recurring errors that aren&#8217;t really errors tolerated?<\/li>\n<li>Are procedures for requesting recoveries adhoc?<\/li>\n<li>Are backups thought of after systems are added or expanded?<\/li>\n<li>Are backups highly limited to &#8220;save space&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Is the backup server seen as a &#8220;non-production&#8221; server?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the answer to even a single one of those questions is <em>yes<\/em>, then your company doesn&#8217;t have a backup <em>system<\/em>, and your ability to guarantee recoverability is considerably diminished.<\/p>\n<p>Backup systems, by integrating the technical and the human aspect of a company, provide a much better guarantee of recoverability than a collection of untested random copies that have no formal procedures for their creation and use.<\/p>\n<p>And if the answer to even a single one of those questions is <em>yes<\/em>, you&#8217;ll get something useful and important out of my book.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re interested in buying the book, you can grab it from <a title=\"Enterprise systems backup at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/82zidp\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon using this link<\/a>, or from the publisher, <a title=\"Enterprise Systems Backup at CRC Press\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/4Vuid4\" target=\"_blank\">CRC press, using this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it approaches that time for giving, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that with just a simple purchase, you can simultaneously&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[152,174,363],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup-theory","category-general-thoughts","tag-backup-system","tag-book","tag-enterprise-backup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-nz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}