The answer to the question of what to do on the international backup day (which is celebrated on March 31, that is, today), suggests itself - of course, by backing up your data!

Dedicate this day to thoughts (since Saturday is today - we’ll limit ourselves to thoughts and things can be done on Monday) about installing and setting up backup systems, approve information recovery SLA in case of accidents, transfer fresh backups over the network to a nearby office in case of fire. And if you still do not backup - then we go to you it 's time to make it!

Under the cut useful tips and a nice toy for the day of backup
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Useful tips:

• Use systems with backup search and file recovery from it. Otherwise, when you urgently need 1 file from the backup, you will have to wait for the full recovery of the entire system;
• Combine backup of physical and virtual environments. Using a single solution for both environments, you can reduce costs, reduce the amount of stored data, speed up recovery and simplify your life;
• Use deduplication technology for backups and archives, they can significantly reduce backup volumes, especially in virtual environments;
• Do not store data indefinitely: Backup copies are needed for recovery, not long-term data storage. There are technologies that help determine what is worth storing and what can be removed;
• Do not confuse backup with archive, these are different systems, each of which performs its own function, but it is desirable that they be integrated and general deduplication performed. The basic principle - Backup for recovery, archiving for discovery - Backup for recovery, archive for search;
• And finally: make a backup regularly on a schedule! Who does not do this - download
trial versions of backup from Symantec for home , for a small company or even different options for a large corporation.

Make a backup, you will like it!

And now we offer to combine business with pleasure. By the day of backup, we made an online game

V-ray challenge

You need to go through 4 levels from backup to protection and data recovery in a virtual machine. To create a backup in time, protect data and restore it, you need to at least see what data and threats are hiding inside the VM. V-ray x-ray at your service. Now you just need a little skill. PLAY >>



UPD1: a few hours after the publication of this post, in the TOP-10 ranking of the winners of the game 4 lines were marked under the Russian flag. Hurray comrades! Give full Russification!

UPD2: Habraeffekt affected - we are leading!