Backups

A virtual infrastructure can pose different challenges for backups in terms of a technical understanding of the environment. This is the main reason we see that backups are not being adequately performed. Every organization has its own set of requirements for backups, but consider the following as important items for a backup strategy:

• An appropriate recovery point objective (RPO) or the ability to roll back to a period of time from today

• An appropriate retention policy, or the number of copies of previous periods of times retained

• An appropriate recovery time objective (RTO) or the ability to restore the appropriate backups in a set time

• An appropriate location of both onsite and offsite backups to enable recovery of data in the event of a complete disaster, while still allowing for a quick restore onsite where needed