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The Backup Wrap-Up

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup)

Formerly known as "Restore it All," The Backup Wrap-up podcast turns unappreciated backup admins into cyber recovery heroes. After a brief analysis of backup-related news, each episode dives deep into one topic that you can use to better protect your organization from data loss, be it from accidents, disasters, or ransomware. The Backup Wrap-up is hosted by W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and his co-host Prasanna Malaiyandi. Curtis" passion for backups began over 30 years ago when his employer, a

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51:31

Backup team completes two-year project in three months

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2023/01/09

Hear the incredible story of Albert Uy, who was handed a two-year project that had already wasted 18 months. They told him he had four months to complete it. He looked at that timeline and told them there was only one way he could do, by switching horses in mid-stream. Not only did they finish it in time; they finished it early. Albert has also managed backup teams for many years, so before we cover this project story, we talk about backup has progressed over the years. We also talk about how

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28:02

Best of 2022 - Backups, Security, and Ransomware

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2023/01/02

Nothing but the best for our listeners! Curtis and Prasanna review their favorite episodes from 2022, from the time Curtis had to restore Backup Central to the shocking outage at Rackspace ( which is still ongoing!). This is your chance to catch up on what you missed last year as we prepare for a new year! Here are links to all the episodes discussed. Happy New Year!Mr. Backup Forced to Restore Backup CentralRestore Test Failed to Bad DocumentationSecurity expert rips Okta for their response to

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44:00

Shocking RackSpace Hosted Exchange Ransomware Attack

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/12/19

Tomorrow marks two weeks from when the RackSpace outage started on Dec 2, 2022. They confirmed it was via a ransomware attack and it is not. going. well. We're going to do a deeper dive into this once it is all over, but this is a first-blush look at what is happening and RackSpace's reaction to it. When we recorded this episode, their reaction was not looking good. I'm sad to say it's gotten even worse. Check it out!

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37:17

Understanding Backup Levels (Backup to Basics Series)

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/12/12

Ok, so maybe not the most interesting topic. ;) But we promise you, this episode has a great story that involves Mr. Backup being kidnapped by a client, basically because he had a backup level issue. Learn about full backups, incrementals, cumulative incrementals, differentials, numbered levels, tower of hanoi backups, and why all this matters. It turns out it matters a lot more these days for structured backups than filesystem backups, which have typically gone to an incremental forever

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38:13

Risk Management Advice from an industry expert

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/12/05

This episode we have Boris Agranovich, who has been a risk manager for decades, and speaks SIX languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Dutch, English, and Spanish). How amazing is that? He started the Global Risk Community, the largest online community for risk managers, and it's doing very well. We talk about the differences between what we do (as IT risk managers) and what he does, where he's managing risk for the entire organization. Fascinating guy with a unique perspective.

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44:34

What is archive and retrieve? (Backup to Basics)

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/11/28

Archive is NOT backup, and hopefully this episode will help you understand how/why that is the case. In this continued romp through W. Curtis Preston's Modern Data Protection, we explore the definition of archive, and how different it is from backup. You should have no trouble understanding the difference between the two after listening to this episode. As usual, Mr. Backup fills in the definition with interesting stories of what happens when you confuse backup and archive. Enjoy!

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45:08

What is backup and restore? (Backup to Basics Series)

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/11/21

As we continue our "Backup to Basics" series, we touch on one of the most important questions of all: what is backup and restore? (And how does it different than archive and retrieve?) The answer to these questions are both simple and nuanced. It's important to have a solid understanding of backup and restore in order to understand how archive is different. Reminder: You can download a complimentary copy of Mr. Backup's latest book, Modern Data Protection here: https://druva.com/ebook.

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39:43

Divining Requirements out of the Organization

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/11/14

This episode follows the previous one in a very interesting way. We have a guest, Eric Bursley, whose job is to divine business and technical requirements from a vendor perspective at Presidio, an IT solutions provider. He consults with customers and helps them get from "I want" to "I need." This was a fascinating conversation that took a turn into (surprise) ransomware. Eric is a fan of the pod and knows his stuff. As mentioned in the podcast, here is a link to the music video that is the

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47:00

Getting approval for a new backup design (Backup to...

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/10/31

We say it all the time: your backup requirements must be based on business/organizational needs. If you keep that mind, not only will your organization be better off, it'll be easier to get approval for the new backup system you want. This episode of our Backup to Basics series goes right to that core idea, and we get advice directly from one of our favorite guests: Jeff Rochlin. He is now the Head of Technical Operations at the LA Studio of Framestore, a visual effects company. In his 30+ year

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42:47

When to use public or private cloud AND how to...

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/10/24

If you have sometimes wondered if your apps should be in a public cloud, private cloud, or in your own datacenter, have we got the episode for you. And we'll also talk about how to protect those apps regardless of where they reside. We looked hard for an unbiased cloud expert, and I think we hit gold. We found Sagi Brody, the CTO of Opti9, an MSP that supports both public and private clouds, as well as on-premises backup infrastructure! We talk extensively about which types of things are

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39:34

Why do we even back up? (Backup to Basics Series)

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/10/17

We get right to the heart of the matter in this next episode of our Backup to Basics series. (See what we did there?). Why do we even back up? It is expensive, time consuming, and no one seems to want to be in charge of it, so we do we even do it anyway. This episode is based on Chapter 1 of W. Curtis Preston's latest O'Reilly book, Modern Data Protection, which you can download for free courtesy of Curtis' employer, Druva. Curtis believes there are three categories of reasons: human

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45:11

International lawyer discusses e-discovery in US &...

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/10/10

This week are we pleased to announce we have Joe Dehner, specialist in International Law, to discuss the legal side of e-discovery and all the things that go with it. For the first time on Restore it All, we have a lawyer discussing legal things! (Usually we just tell you we're not lawyers!) My favorite part was listening to him tell stories from actual cases that make the various points we discuss. I also enjoyed when we talk about the e-discovery boogey man, adverse inference. If you have

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38:40

Your cyber insurance doesn't want to pay for your hack

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/10/03

This is a trend that's happening around the globe, and the news we got from Lloyd's of London Insurance in August is just the latest example. They're looking to exclude payments for "catastropic" and "state-sponsored" attacks. We talk about what that means. We also discuss how a plaintiff lost a recent lawsuit against their insurance company, getting $100K when what they wanted was $600K. It was how their policy was written. We also talk about a new show (streaming on Peacock in the US) called

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41:31

Learning lessons from the Uber and LA USD cyberattacks

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/09/26

The Uber attack is huge. The initial penetration teaches about MFA, and how they were able to escalate their privileges from there is simply wrong, wrong, wrong. What can you learn from this? Well, we have a cybersecurity expert, and host of the Tech and Main podcast, on the pod this week to help us figure that out. We had planned to just talk about the Uber attack, but he also wanted to talk about what happened to the LA Unified School District. Do you have kids in school, or know someone

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43:16

Top 5 security mistakes you're making in the cloud

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/09/19

Cyber security attacks are everywhere, and they're definitely going after what you have running in your favorite hyperscaler. Today we are joined by Paul Hadgy, CEO of Horangi Security, a cyber security company specializing in securing your cloud infrastructure. We talk about a number of things, but at one point, Mr. Backup asked him what the thought was the five biggest security mistakes people make when building out their cloud infrastructure. He gave us a pretty good list, and then talked about

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45:27

How to back up Jira

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/09/12

Jira is yet another service that could be at the center of your organization, and losing the data stored in there could cost you a lot. Did you know it doesn't even have an audit trail for many things? Not only can you lose data, you might not know what was deleted or who did it! We are joined this week from two representatives from Revyz, a new service to back up Jira. They talk about what to back up and what you can do for free, along with what functionality that misses out on. They then

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41:54

What are RTO and RPO & how do they drive backup design?

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/09/06

If you don't meet your company's Recovery time objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective with your backup design, nothing else matters. Seriously. No one cares if you can back up – only that you can restore in a timeframe they consider reasonable. The only way that's going to happen is if you agree to these times UPFRONT. In this episode in our new back to basics series, we'll jump right into this extremely important topic. We'll explain what RTO & RPO are, what recovery time and

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47:36

Why you need a password manager

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/08/29

Why don't you have a password manager already? Our guest this week, Chris Hayner, blogger at hayner.net and host of the Chaos Lever podcast, wrote a great blog called Yes, you need a password manager. "Yes, You Do Need A Password Manager, Brett. Yes You Do!" Both Prasanna and Curtis DO have password managers, so he's preaching to the choir. But if you'd like to hear the argument for why you need one, and arguments against many of the usual excuses for not having one, then this is the episode you

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43:01

Datacore becomes leader in container-attached storage

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/08/22

Datacore has been one of the storage industry's best-kept secrets for a long time, quietly growing a dedicated customer base in Fort Lauderdale. Their CEO, Dave Zabrowski, joins us on this episode to explain their background, and tells us about how their technology and some savvy business decisions resulted in them owning Open EBS, the most popular container-attached storage platform. Datacore is a software-defined storage product that virtualizing pretty much any kind of storage into any other

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45:22

M-disc founder explains how it keeps data for 1000 years

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2022/08/15

This week we have Barry Lunt, one of two founders of Milleniata, the creators of M-Disc. The company may be gone, but the format lives on. Most modern DVD and Blu-Ray drives can write to M-Disc, and Verbatim still sells it. Barry explains to us why they decided to make M-Disc, and why it's different than any other optical product. He also offers a shocker: a study done many years ago that shows that recordable DVDs are nowhere near as good at holding onto data as they claim. There is a lot of

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