When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery
PARTNER CONTENT: The gap between having a backup and actually recovering from a disaster is wider than most IT teams realize
Ask most IT teams whether they're protected against a major outage or ransomware attack, and the answer will almost certainly be yes, because the backups are in place and the box marked 'disaster recovery plan' has been ticked.
But there's a difference between having a backup and recovering from a disaster, and that gap tends to reveal itself at the worst possible moment.
The backup problem nobody talks about
Backups were built for a different era. When the biggest threat was hardware failure or accidental deletion, copying files to tape or a secondary disk made sense, because the workflow was simply to preserve the data, restore from the copy, and carry on.
Modern threats operate differently. Ransomware operators do not just encrypt production systems; they target backup infrastructure first....
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