Recovery Planning on Catalogic Software

Navigating On-Site Backups During a Company Merger: Lessons from Sysadmins

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Mergers bring a whirlwind of changes, and IT infrastructure often sits at the eye of that storm. When two companies combine, integrating their systems and ensuring uninterrupted operations can be daunting. Among these challenges, creating a reliable backup strategy is a priority. Data protection becomes non-negotiable, especially when the stakes include sensitive business information, compliance requirements, and operational continuity.

Drawing from the experiences of IT professionals, let’s explore how to navigate on-site backups during a merger and build a secure, efficient disaster recovery plan.

Mastering RTO and RPO: Metrics Every Backup Administrator Needs To Know

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Two numbers govern most of what a backup administrator does. The first is how long the business can be down after a failure, and the second is how much data it can afford to lose. Those are the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and they sit at the centre of any disaster recovery plan worth the name. They get confused with each other constantly, because both are expressed in units of time and both get tighter as the system gets more important. They measure different things.

The Power of Granular Recovery Technology: Data Protection and Recovery

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Pulling a single file out of a large backup used to mean restoring far more than the file. Traditional recovery works at the level of whole datasets or whole systems, so retrieving one deleted document could involve staging an entire volume somewhere and digging through it.

Granular recovery technology narrows that down. It restores the specific item you lost, whether that is one email, one document, or one database record, and leaves everything else alone.

Top 5 Data Protection Challenges in 2024

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As we navigate through 2024, the challenges of data protection continue to grow, driven by the increasing complexity of cyber threats, data breaches, and system failures. Organizations now face the need for more resilient and adaptable data protection strategies to manage these evolving risks effectively. The tools and technologies available are also advancing to keep pace with these threats, offering solutions that provide comprehensive backup, rapid recovery, and robust disaster recovery capabilities. It is crucial for IT environments to adopt solutions that can efficiently address these top data protection challenges, ensuring data security, minimizing downtime, and maintaining business continuity in the face of unpredictable disruptions.

Instant VM Recovery on VMware vSphere: A Comprehensive User Guide

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Editor’s note (September 2026): This is an updated version of the original April 2024 article. The instructions below reflect Catalogic DPX 4.16.

An instant VM restore gets a VMware virtual machine running from backup data before its disks have been copied to a production datastore. In Catalogic DPX, the restored VM uses disks mapped from a backup snapshot through iSCSI. That can shorten the wait for a usable VM, but the machine remains dependent on the snapshot and backup storage until you complete a permanent restore.

How to Use Granular Recovery for Efficient Backups and Restores with Catalogic DPX?

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

**Accurate data recovery is crucial for strategic planning. Granular recovery technology makes restoring the exact data needed easier, without the overhead of backing up everything. It’s the difference between searching for a needle in a haystack and retrieving the needle itself. Catalogic DPX plays a pivotal role in simplifying the process and providing simple backup solutions for complex data problems. **

The journey of data recovery is a reflection of the broader technological advancements in IT infrastructure. Transitioning from the physical confines of servers to the expansive, virtualized environments and the cloud has redefined the parameters of data storage and management.

Recommendations From FBI Cyber Division on How to Reduce Risk from Ransomware Attacks

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Ransomware continues to be a growing threat in 2022 given cybercriminals are constantly innovating and wreaking havoc within businesses. Worryingly the fiscal impact of a ransomware attack has more than doubled, increasing from $761,106 in 2020 to $1.85 million in 2021. This is due, in part, to the move by attackers to more advanced and complex targeted attacks that are harder to recover from. And in mid-sized organizations in thirty countries across the globe, 37% of organizations experienced a ransomware attack in the last 12 months.