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How to Protect Your Database with Zerto

Zerto

Application-consistent points in time will be indicated as a checkpoint in the Zerto journal of changes to ensure visibility when performing a move, failover, or failover test in Zerto. It is important to note that an Oracle database must be placed into hot backup mode to achieve database application consistency.

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The Time Is Now—Get Out of Ransomware Jail!

Zerto

Easily perform failover and backup testing quickly, without disruption. Whitepaper. Lower risk with instant, non-disruptive testing. Test often, test anytime. Zerto allows you to take the guesswork and risk out of the process with instant, non-disruptive testing. Get out of ransomware jail and try the Zerto Free Edition.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part IV: Multi-site Active/Active

AWS Disaster Recovery

My subsequent posts shared details on the backup and restore , pilot light, and warm standby active/passive strategies. This protects against disasters that include data deletion or corruption, since the data backup can be restored to the last known good state. Alternatively, you can use AWS Global Accelerator for routing and failover.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

By using the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper to design your DR strategy, your workloads can remain available despite disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. DR strategies: Choosing backup and restore. Implementing backup and restore.

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Types of Backup: Select Wisely to Avoid Costly Data Loss

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Backup technology has existed as long as data has needed to be recovered. We’ve seen countless iterations of backup solutions, media types, and ways of storing backup data. This last decade, many new backup tools have come out. Backup Appliances. Software-based Backup.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

Figure 2 shows the four strategies for DR that are highlighted in the DR whitepaper. All requests are now switched to be routed there in a process called “failover.” For tighter RTO/RPO objectives, the data is maintained live, and the infrastructure is fully or partially deployed in the recovery site before failover.

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Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

The Availability and Beyond whitepaper discusses the concept of static stability for improving resilience. What if the very tools that we rely on for failover are themselves impacted by a DR event? Failover plan dependencies and considerations. Relying on an automated health check to control Regional failover can be tricky.