As you start thinking about disaster recovery, here are some important considerations:
- Start small and build as needed: Make sure to streamline the first step of taking a backup. Most of the time, organizations lose data as they didn't have an efficient backup strategy. Take a backup of everything, whether it is your file server, machine image, or databases.
Keeping lots of active backups could increase costs, so make sure to apply a life cycle policy to archive and delete data as per business needs. For example, you can choose to keep a 90-day active backup and after that store that in low-cost archive storage such as a tape drive or Amazon Glacier. After 1 or 2 years, you may want to set a lifecycle policy to delete the data. Compliance such as PCI-DSS may require users to store data for 7 years, and in that case, you must choose archival data storage to reduce costs.
- Check your software licenses: Managing software licenses can...
