Give your organization the data protection it deserves without the uncertainty and cost overruns experienced by your predecessors or other companies. System and network administrators have their work cut out for them to protect physical and virtual machines in the data center and the cloud; mobile devices including laptops and tablets; SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce; and persistent data created by Kubernetes and container workloads.

To help you navigate the breadth and depth of this challenge, this book presents several solutions so you can determine which is right for your company. You'll learn the unique requirements that each workload presents, then explore various categories of commercial backup hardware, software, and services available to protect these data sources, including the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

• Learn the workload types that your organization should be backing up
• Explore the hardware, software, and services you can use to back up your systems
• Understand what's wrong with your current data protection system
• Pair your backed-up workloads to the appropriate backup system
• Learn the adjustments that will make your backups better, without wasting money

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Risks to Your Data: Why We Back Up

Chapter 2. Gathering and Determining Service Levels

Chapter 3. Backup and Archive Are Very Different

Chapter 4. Backup and Recovery Basics

Chapter 5. Using Disk and Deduplication for Data Protection

Chapter 6. Traditional Data Sources

Chapter 7. Protecting Databases

Chapter 8. Modern Data Sources

Chapter 9. Backup and Recovery Software Methods

Chapter 10. Archive Software Methods

Chapter 11. Disaster Recovery Methods

Chapter 12. Data Protection Targets

Chapter 13. Commercial Data Protection Challenges

Chapter 14. Traditional Data Protection Solutions

Chapter 15. Modern Data Protection Solutions

Chapter 16. Replacing or Upgrading Your Backup System

About the Author

W. Curtis Preston, also known as "Mr. Backup,” is the author of three O'Reilly books and the founder/webmaster of backupcentral.com, a site dedicated to backup & recovery for over 20 years. He is also the host of the independent Restore it All podcast. He is currently the Chief Technical Evangelist at Druva, Inc, a data protection as a service company.