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Easy to use unlimited storage is a sure recipe for not finding what you actually need, restoring the wrong backup, etc. Unless you take your DR plans seriously
by OldHand2018 6y ago
Easy to use unlimited storage is a sure recipe for not finding what you actually need, restoring the wrong backup, etc.
Unless you take your DR plans seriously, the cloud doesn't eliminate risk, it just changes it.
The place I work at forces a failover on a monthly basis, and does a full-on offsite DR exercise twice a year.
I'm sure it took time to set it all up, but now that it's there it takes almost no effort to continue.
- user5994461 6y agoThe cloud eliminates the most common risks, that is ops + developers simply giving up on backups because there is nowhere to store them, and not being able to access them anyway. Typical new sysadmin in large corp: The backup storage is full and backups have been failing since before I joined, should we do something about it? Oh we raised tickets to request more disks. They will take months to arrive if they ever pass approvals.