ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews various data protection options on the basis of the key requirements: system design, best practices and adequacy of recovery testing. One of the most important data recovery considerations is one of the most overlooked the difference between data recovery and service restoration. Data recovery merely refers to retrieving data from protection storage, but depending on the nature of the failure, storage, and data, there may be considerably more effort involved in achieving service restoration. As system automation through portals, Cloud-like automation and auto-healing storage becomes more commonplace, automatic recovery processes are likely to enter the datacenter more pervasively. As system automation through portals, Cloud-like automation and auto-healing storage becomes more commonplace, automatic recovery processes are likely to enter the datacenter more pervasively. Businesses are increasingly seeing the benefits of allowing (where possible) user-directed self-service recovery thanks to the growth in disk-based protection storage.
