The importance of secondary storage

I remember one incident that happened four years ago when our IT personnel attempted to upgrade the database server.  Everything was going smooth at first. They managed to follow the instructions properly but during the last part of the installation, something went wrong. They’ve pressed the "YES" button which deleted almost the entire database files from the server.  Included in the loss were news bulletin, students data and others that were stored at that particular server.

It didn’t passed the attention of the boss.  The IT guys was so frustrated on not reading the lengthy instructions properly. As a consequence they all spent sleepless nights just to manually recover data from tape backups. Some of the data are unrecoverable. It required some input of the data from hard copies back to the server.  Can you imagine how difficult it was to load every single data rather than restoring the back-up files?  Big problem was, some of the tape back-up failed during restoration.  So it served a big lesson for them to check once in a while the reliability of the backup tapes.  

Today considering for secondary servers or storage of valuable information is a must.  It is essential for big and  even small companies to secure continuous transactions. Likely considered highly important by iBackup as well.  iBackup offers the best solution to major problems like this.  If you might not want to end up scraping for data that have been lost due to wrong execution of commands, better save it through Online Backup first before continuing any step further. This company is very reliable in a sense that it has won several awards including PC World (2006) and PC Magazine editor’s choices.

The particular incident could be avoided if secondary backup was done in a remote location like iBackup aside from relying on tape back-up. One will never know the importance, until you get into technology disaster.