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NREN Backup Services TF-Storage 3, Dublin, Jan Meijer <uninett.no>

business case? cheaper better more

evolutionary path offsite backup (data offsite) disaster recovery site (data, server images offsite) cloudify Norwegian higher education sector nation-wide virtual data center

Network enables

RPO/RTO recovery point objective recovery time objective HE&R != eCommerce !CDP?

RPO summarized backup disaster recovery business continuity

Human failure Engineer accidentally deletes cloud Following last month's much-discussed Amazon S3 outage, most (if not all) of XCalibre's FlexiScale cloud went dark on Tuesday, and nearly two days later, the UK-based hosting outfit has yet to restore service. ... "The problem was caused by human error," Lucas told us. "We've been having some capacity issues - FlexiScale has been growing at about 30 per cent a month in terms of usage. We've been adding capacity and adding capacity and we were in the process of adding even more, when one of the engineers who was tidying things up on the disk architecture made a mistake. " XCalibre immediately took its entire disk structure offline - in order to "preserve the integrity of the data on the system." And with storage down, FlexiScale's processing and networking services are dark as well. But the platform should be returned to normal, once engineers restore the lost data to a brand new disk structure. ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/28/flexiscale_outage/

equipment failure

site failure

relevant?

relevant?

Protect against? ● Human failure ● Equipment failure? Single server meltdown? ● Logical bombs ● Long term power failure? ● Network failure? Unlikely ● Loss of site failure: collapse, fire, water, theft, ? ● Serious natural disaster ● War? Terrorism?

technologies ● Traditional backup software ● deduplication ● CDP ● block level replication, sync/async ● in hardware ● in software

traditional backup

traditional online backup provider Survey April 2008, Storage Newsletter: > 1000 online backup providers! 35% in Europe

CDP: continuity centre

aggregate demand optimize utilization

Trial 1

Trial 2

summarized ● play with network to service providers – go to service providers – allow service providers to connect to you – demand aggregation for service providers ● tender for services – framework agreement – multi-NREN tender ● DYI ● Combination of all

Administrative domains

Questions

Jan Meijer at UNINETT dot NO