Designing and Implementing a Backup Process

Now, to discuss the next extremely important topic: establishing a backup process. In principle, making backups of your important data is something that you have been doing from the very beginning, before deploying a workload in production for the first time, that is, when you can’t afford to lose data. However, it is also possible that you pushed your workload into production with a basic backup scheme in place without considering the more granular aspects.

There is no point in backing up your data simply for the sake of doing so. Every backup is meant to serve some recovery objectives. Backup is an essential part of any recovery strategy that will be activated in case of a major failure affecting your workload. So, the first thing is to clarify your recovery objectives, such as Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). The RTO describes the acceptable amount of time that the recovery of your workload can...