2 weeks Ago By Simon Sharwood
On Call Special How can you avoid a disaster recovery disaster? You can find answers in the pages of The Register , specifically our reader-contributed tales of tech support triumph and terror: On-Call and Who, Me? We've carefully reviewed both columns, by hand, plus perused unused submissions in both columns’ inboxes, and distilled them into the following causes of disaster recovery fails: The fix for all of the above is developing and observing proper backup and restoration processes, spending whatever it takes on infrastructure, on site and off site, that can securely store data and restore it at speed, then testing everything often and rigorously. Of course, you knew that already. So do tech giants like Google and Cloudflare – both of which recently lost customer data .
Even backup software vendor Veeam recently lost some of its own data. Those incidents tell us disaster recovery is hard. So hard, in fact, that even rocket scientists can't always get it right: NASA appears to still be restoring data from tape after its November 2024 server room flood destroyed several servers.
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