Hurricane Recovery: A Backup Admin's War Story
Backup Central, Monday, December 9th, 2024
There's nothing quite like hearing disaster recovery stories from someone who's been in the trenches. A few years ago I spoke with a backup administrator who faced every IT pro's nightmare - a hurricane that flooded their data center and their Iron Mountain facility simultaneously.
This blog post summarizes the main points of my latest podcast episode.
When Disaster Recovery Gets Real
Our guest has been managing backups at the same company for almost 20 years, overseeing a petabyte-scale environment using NetBackup. They had two data centers on an island, with backups replicating between them and tape copies going to Iron Mountain. Sounds solid, right? Then the hurricane hit.