| Speed versus accuracy in backup and restore By Don Chouinard The purpose of backing up business-critical data is to enable an accurate restore when data loss occurs. Backups have to run as quickly as possible in order to protect the multiple gigabytes of data that reside on typical networks of servers, desktops, and notebooks. Ideally, backup software would offer both fast backups and 100 percent accurate restores. Unfortunately, backup administrators have had to compromise between speed and accuracy because traditional backup software forces a choice between slow backups with accurate restores or fast backups with inaccurate restores. To read the rest of this article, click here to download a PDF version.
•Date:
17th October 2003 •Region: Worldwide •Type:
Article •Topic: IT
continuity |
