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Batman's Backup Requirements

TimBurlowski
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I realized that I should probably be talking about the other blockbuster comic book based movie, but something I read about Batman's disk storage requirements got my attention.

 

Pete Steege over at the "Storage Effect" blog recently posted about the  "Batman's Storage Requirements". After reading that post I'm pretty sure that we need to talk to Bruce Wayne or perhaps Alfred about a backup and disaster recovery strategy. 

 

First of all, Bruce Wayne needs to think seriously about what data you actually need to backup and how long you need to retain those backups. If the majority of your data is from video feeds around Gotham, you probably want to keep it for a relatively short period of time. Since you probably keep the original data for 30 days or less, you'll want to retain the backups for a similar period of time.

 

The primary datacenter is in a cave and seems quite secure, but
the villians in Gotham are quite nasty, so let's plan
for disaster. If you are serious about batman business continuity you will definitely want a second batcave where you can turn on the lights and start working.  I would backup the data in location one, the primary bat cave, and then make a second copy offsite, using Storage Lifecycle Policies.

 

I think you can safely assume we can use disk for all backups - although I would like to see a batman style tape library.

 

Lastly, will you really need to backup all of Robin's MP3s?

 

Tim Burlowski
Technical Product Manager
Symantec

Message Edited by TimBur on 08-11-2008 07:09 PM