Reduce Backup
Most surveys relating to IT issues, regularly list backup and restore as the largest concern for IT Managers. The quantity of data on primary servers and the decreasing window of time they have to complete backup operations sometimes lead to jobs being stopped before being completed. Very often, due to of a lack of resources, trial restore operations are also forgotten. This puts an organization’s valuable data at risk.
By identifying files as static and unchanging, it is possible to remove them from the backup window completely. Many analysts report that up to 80% of an organization’s data could be in this class.
To drastically reduce backup, optimize costly primary storage and to protect static, yet still valuable data, archiving should be employed.
Using QStar Network Migrator, based on policies set, customers can manage the data life-cycle, continuously moving static files from primary storage into the archive. Files can be stored a desired number of times on one or more technologies, depending on the organization’s business need.
QStar 3-2-1 Archive and Data Protection Best Practice recommends at least three copies are created of archived data, significantly less than the number of backups that would be taken of the same data over a year. Typically the archive should consist of a fast response copy, a secure copy and a DR copy.
