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How Disaster Ready Are Your Backup Systems, Really?

Dzone - DevOps

Complex systems receiving updates will eventually experience incidents that you can’t anticipate. Today, we’ll talk about the third type of readiness: having backup systems and redundancies to quickly restore function when things go very wrong. In SRE, we believe that some failure is inevitable.

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Why Do You Need Third Party Git Backup Software?

The Crazy Programmer

What is Backup? It is said that there are two groups of people – those who do backups and those who will. Let’s focus on our code and the use of the Git version control system. Be aware that Git is not a backup software by itself. Someone may say that GitHub backup is sufficient. What to do then?

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DataStax Cassandra Backup Strategies

Datavail

The backup mechanism in Cassandra database takes a snapshot of all on-disk SSTable files. We can take a backup of all keyspaces, a single keyspace, or a single table without keeping the system offline. We can take a backup of all keyspaces, a single keyspace, or a single table without keeping the system offline.

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The CIO’s Hybrid Cloud Journey Incorporates Extensive Systems Thinking

CIO

Heading down the path of systems thinking for the hybrid cloud is the equivalent of taking the road less traveled in the storage industry. Applying systems thinking to the hybrid cloud is changing the way CIOs and IT teams are approaching their cloud journey. The right places in the stack.

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Veeam’s new pitch to CIOs: Outcome-based backup and recovery offerings

CIO

Veeam is all set to shift its selling strategy to appeal to CIOs with performance guarantees that could penalize the data replication, backup and recovery company if it fails to meet agreed-on outcomes. If it is a vendor in backup and recovery area, historically, you would simply charge for a backup solution.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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Git Clone Command vs. GitHub Backup - Best Practices

Dzone - DevOps

programmers using the Git version control system, 60M GitHub users, 10M Bitbucket teams, and over 30M GitLab enthusiasts – so let’s focus on a very in-depth look at the git clone command topic. In an event of failure and the lack of backups, we can restore the entire repository on the basis of such a copy. The world of over 87.2%

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