The Backup Wrap-Up

By W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup)Technology

The Backup Wrap-Up episodes

December 06, 2019 How do you backup a container?
W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Jon Owings, Principal Solutions Architect for Cloud Solutions at Pure Storage (@jon_2vcps), discuss what container backup is, why it's so difficult, and what you need to do to back them up.
27 min
November 28, 2019 Thanksgiving Special
In this special Thanksgiving Episode of Restore it All, Prasanna and Curtis talk about the things they're thankful for. Important stuff, like smart phones, virtualization, and containers. Yea... we're nerds.
31 min
November 22, 2019 Dispelling lies about AWS snapshots for backups
W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss some vendor FUD about using AWS snapshots (which are really image copies and not snapshots) for protecting native AWS resources like EC2, Redshift, S3, and EBS.
27 min
November 16, 2019 Are backup admins obsolete?
W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss whether or not backup admins are no longer needed. They also discuss tapas and sangria. :)
33 min
November 07, 2019 What to look for in a SaaS data protection solution
W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss SaaS backup: what it is, what it isn't, things to look for in a SaaS data protection solution, and how to decide if SaaS data protection is for you.
42 min
November 01, 2019 How Hollywood Does Storage
Jeff Rochlin, a former actor and Hollywood IT Industry veteran, makes his second appearance on Restore it All. W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi ask him to design a greenfield datacenter. We also talk about GDPR & CCPA.
41 min
October 24, 2019 Backing up relational databases
W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the various ways one can backup a relational database, like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
25 min
October 18, 2019 Why are vendors offering Backup as a Service?
W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and a mystery guest discuss why it has become so popular for data protection companies to offer their product as a service.
37 min
October 11, 2019 What do people use instant boot for?
W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi talk about the concept of "Instant boot" what companies use it for, and when (and when) not it might be an appropriate tool.
33 min
October 04, 2019 Thoughts on the latest Forrester Wave
Curtis & Prasanna greet their special guests Chris Mellor (Editor, The Register) and Chris Evans (Storage Unpacked Podcast), and talk about The Forrester Wave: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2019.
If you want to download the report yourself, you can do so here: https://resources.druva.com/analyst-reports/the-forrester-wave-data-resiliency-solutions-q3-2019
33 min

About The Backup Wrap-Up

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Formerly known as "Restore it All," The Backup Wrap-up podcast turns unappreciated backup admins into cyber recovery heroes. After a brief analysis of backup-related news, each episode dives deep into one topic that you can use to better protect your organization from data loss, be it from accidents, disasters, or ransomware.