The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit.
On premises servers, PaaS, and serverless delivery of databases each has its own backup best practices.
The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup.
Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage.
Tape isn’t close to being the perfect backup, but it is pretty impervious to ransomware.
Cloud-based disaster recovery offers speed and cost advantages.
Make a disaster-recovery plan to address ransomware attacks, and start with stopping its spread, IDing the variant and getting ready to get restore your files.
There’s more than one way to backup laptop data, but not all of them can defeat the tricks attackers have designed into ransomware.
Organizations that failed to make sure their cloud data was backed up properly learned the consequences the hard way when an OVHcloud data center burned last month.
Avoid paying off ransomware attackers by following these steps to ensure backups can restore infected systems.
