Digital Data Integrity – The Evolution from Passive Protection to Active Management

David Little is Data Protection specialist for VERITAS Software. He has worked in the IT industry for 37 years, nine of which were spent working with data protection applications. David is co-author of Implementing Backup and Recovery: The Readiness Guide for the Enterprise. Skip Farmer is Senior Staff Systems Engineer and a member of the VERITAS Government Specialist Organization, focusing on Data Protection for VERITAS Software in the Government space. He has worked with data protection products for six years, and has 12 years in industry. Oussama El-Hilali is Director, Product Management Team, NetBackup at VERITAS Software. During his tenure he has helped enhance the Data Management products through product definition based on customer and partner interaction and technology acquisitions. Oussama has been in the software development industry for 15 years.

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. An Introduction to Data Protection Today. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Traditional Backup and Recovery. 1.3 Hierarchical Storage Migration (HSM). 1.4 Disaster Recovery. 1.5 Vaulting. 1.6 Encryption. 1.7 Management and Reporting. 1.8 Summary. 2. The Evolution. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Storage Virtualization. 2.3 RAID. 2.4 RAID Levels. 2.5 What Mirroring and RAID Do Not Do. 2.6 Replication. 2.6.1 Host-Based Replication. 2.6.2 RAID System Replication. 2.7 Standby or DR Site. 2.8 Summary. 3. Backup Integration. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Snapshots. 4. Bare Metal Restore. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Background. 4.3 The Evolution of BMR Capabilities. 4.4 Filling the Gap - Integrated BMR. 4.5 The Problem of Dissimilar Disk Recovery. 4.6 The Problem of Automating Disk Mapping. 4.7 The Problem of Dissimilar System Recovery. 4.8 The Current State of Integrated BMR. 4.9 The Future of BMR. 4.10 New Capabilities and Challenges in Data Protection and the Effect on Bare Metal Recovery. 4.11 Large-Scale Automated Bare Metal Recovery. 4.12 Summary. 5. Management. 5.1 Introduction 67 5.2 Protecting Data Throughout Its Life Cycle. 5.3 Architecting for Efficient Management. 5.4 Reporting. 5.5 Business Unit Chargeback. 5.6 Conclusion. 6. Security. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Encryption and Data Protection. 6.3 Data Protection Application Security. 6.4 Security Vulnerabilities in Data Protection Applications. 6.5 Conclusion. 7. New Features in Data Protection. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Synthetic Backups. 7.3 Evolution of Synthetic Backups. 7.4 Benefits of Synthetic Backups. 7.5 Building a Synthetic Backup. 7.6 Technical Considerations and Limitations. 7.7 Disk-Based Solutions. 7.8 Disk to Disk. 7.9 Disk Staging. 7.10 Virtual Tape. 7.11 Disk-Based Data Protection Implementation Issues. 7.12 Conclusion. 8. Disk-Based Protection Technologies. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Disk Synthetic Backup. 8.3 Online Protection: CDP. 8.4 Data Reduction: SIS. 8.5 New Pricing Paradigms for Disk-Based Protection. 8.6 Conclusion. 9. Managing Data Life Cycle and Storage. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Issues Surrounding Data Life Cycle. 9.3 Data Life Cycle Management. 9.4 Application Considerations. 9.5 Additional Considerations. 9.6 Security. 9.7 Compliance. 9.8 Conclusion. 10. Quality Control. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Quality Control as a Framework. 10.3 Managing the Service Level Agreements (SLAs). 10.4 Protection by Business Unit. 10.5 Application Considerations. 10.6 Policy and Compliance. 10.7 Cost Modelling. 10.8 Security. 10.9 Conclusion. 11. Tools for the System. 11.1 Introduction. 11.2 HA. 11.3 Provisioning. 11.4 Virtualization. 11.5 Summary. Conclusion. Glossary. Appendix A. Appendix B. Index.