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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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01:10:02

Microsoft 365 expert explains why you need to back it up

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2021/01/11

Vanessa Toves joins us again to explain exactly why you need to backup Microsoft 365 and similar services. We talk about how Microsoft is only responsible for that platform; you are responsible for the data. Particular attention is given to the idea that somehow Retention Policies are a substitute for backup. She explains exactly why that is not the case. In fact, her experience with such policies has her struggling to wrap her head around why someone would want to do that.

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45:07

Microsoft 365 architecture that needs to be backed up

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2021/01/04

Vanessa Toves, a Microsoft 365 expert, joins us on Restore it All to explain the unique architecture of Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office365). We talk about Teams and Groups, and how many people misuse both. We cover Sharepoint's role in this as well, and how Exchange Online figures into the picture. This was originally going to just be an overview, but our architecture questions just kept coming, and Vanessa kept answering them. This episode lays a good foundation of what we will cover

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35:45

2021 Storage and Data Protection Predictions

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/12/28

Prasanna and Curtis wax philisophical at the end of 2020, and try to predict what they think will happen next year. We look forward to the end of 2020 (don't we all?) and look with a positive outlook to 2021. We talk about the vaccine, and what it's going to be like getting back to work, and whether or not there will be a new normal there that's not like what it was. We talk about SaaS products and their prevalence, as well as the emergence of a number of backup products based on Kubernetes. 2020

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46:11

Inside look at the DDOS attack on Fathom Analytics

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/12/21

Fathom Analytics (https://www.usefathom.com) is a privacy-first analytics engine, and they were attacked in November 2020 via a very big DDOS attack that threatened their core business. Jack Ellis, co-founder of Fathom Analytics, is a developer and first used the developer mindset to address this threat. He quickly realized he was out of his depth and decided to call for help. The AWS Shield Advanced team came to the rescue and helped them shut down the attack, and helped to stop additional

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55:29

Disaster Recovery after a hurricane - a First Hand...

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/12/14

We get a closer look at the eye of the storm. A few episodes ago, we had an anonymous guest we called Harry Potter, who told us what it was like to manage a DR remotely. This week we hear from the man on the ground, recovering two datacenters after a hurricane wiped out the island where they resided. We learn all sorts of lessons, especially about how so much of a disaster recovery has very little to do with what backup people think of when they think about a "recovery." In fact, we spend

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46:23

Author of Cloud-Native Patterns explains importance...

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/12/07

Cornelia Davis, 30-year industry veteran and CTO of Weaveworks, explains what cloud-native design is and why it matters. She explains that you do not have to go fully cloud-native on day one if you are moving an app to the cloud, but everything you do "refactor" to a cloud-native architecture will be more resilient, scalable, and cost you less to operate. We talk about Kubernetes and how that figures into everything, but how it is not the only way to be cloud-native.Listeners to the podcast can get

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38:53

Public Health Expert Explains COVID-19 Vaccine News

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/11/30

Lindsey Schulz MD/MPH joins once more on the podcast to discuss the great news we have had in the last few weeks around the Coronavirus (COVID-19). There are THREE vaccines that have been announced that all exceed the goals the medical community set, and will all be applying for emergency use authorization from the FDA. She explains the pros and cons of each of the three vaccinees we know about at this point, as well as giving a little info about another vaccine that is expected to announce soon.

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43:52

Doctor & Public Health expert explains current state...

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/11/23

Lindsey Schulz MD/MPH visits us again to give us an update on the current state of COVID-19. There is good and bad news, here, as we are in the midst of a third wave of cases and deaths. But the good news is that health care professionals have learned a lot about the virus in the last several months that have helped to reduce the death rate somewhat, and improve quality of life for those suffering from the illness. Next week's episode will focus on the vaccines that we now know about, but this

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01:00:19

Election poll site manager explains US election systems

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/11/16

In a departure from our normal coverage, I decided to bring on Mark Thompson, who was the Site Manager for the election polling site I volunteered at last week. He gives us insight into how elections are managed in the US, and what we do to prevent fraud and ensure the overall integrity of the system. We talk about the technology used on the front end of the polling process, which in San Diego county including Electronic Poll Books (EPBs) and Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs). We then also talk

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41:32

Dissecting two ransomware attacks on hospitals

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/11/09

Prasanna and Curtis talk about two recent ransomware attacks on hospitals and what we can learn from them. They also discuss things you can do to protect yourself from such attacks, and how to prepare to respond if you get one. We especially talk about the 3-2-1 rule and the remote desktop protocol (RDP) and how these figure into protecting yourself from such things.

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40:57

Tape may be cheap, but disk is better for backups

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/11/02

This isn't a rebuttal to last week's podcast, but it might seem that way. Last week we talked about the advantages of tape for very long term retention (e.g. 10 years), one of which is a significant cost advantage. This week we will discuss how backup, recovery, and disaster recovery are very different use cases, and why disk and cloud is a much more appropriate place for that use case. Joining us to discuss this topic is Druva's CTO, Stephen Manley, who has spent many years at companies that use

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01:01:38

Why Tape is Cheaper than Glacier for Long Term Storage

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/10/26

Matt Starr, CTO of Spectra, comes on the podcast to discuss the advantages of tape for long term storage. We talk about how tape is actually better at holding data long term than disk is – 10,000 times better if you compare it to SATA disk. We also talk about the advancements in tape in the last 10-20 years that have made libraries like Spectra's even more reliable than they used to be. Finally, we talk about the Spectra T-Finity library that can now hold an Exabyte of data in a single unit! What

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49:24

Why is it so hard to backup consumer SaaS products?

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/10/19

Daniel Rosehill, a self-described "backup anorak," joins us to discuss how difficult it can be to backup consumer SaaS services, such as Evernote. Daniel used to use EverNote on Linux, and sent a message to their support system on how to backup its data. They had no answer unless you were using it on Windows. We talk about Google Drive, Dropbox, and other consumer-grade cloud services, and how the challenges of backing them up should be a concern for any users of these platforms –not just backup

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41:37

The Dangers of Improperly Secured Cloud Accounts

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/10/12

The Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat hunting team found that a big customer of theirs had misconfigured two critical Amazon Web Services (AWS) services. If these misconfigurations were exploited by hackers, it could have created a data breach that could have cost the customers tens of millions of dollars. Prasanna Malaiyandi and W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) discuss this misconfiguration, and what you can learn from it to protect backups you store in the cloud.

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46:46

Real Life Hurricane Disaster Recover Story

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/10/05

A mystery guest from a multinational corporation that experienced a disaster during a recent hurricane describes their mostly-disk NetBackup environment and how they used it to recover from a hurricane that ravaged an island. (Company and location names are changed or not mentioned so "Harry Potter," our mystery guest, can speak freely.)

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51:32

Backing up MongoDB & Cassandra, a deep dive

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/09/28

Shalabh Goyal(@goyalshalabh) joins us on this podcast to discuss sharded databases – and MongoDB and Cassandra in particular – and how one might go about backing them up. Suffice it to say that it is complicated. We learned a lot from recording this podcast and you will learn a lot listening to it!

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46:20

Backing up Sharded NoSQL Databases

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/09/21

Tony McGarry, Senior Principal Engineer at Druva, joins W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi to talk about backing up large, multi-node, sharded NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, Cassandra, and MongoDB.

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52:43

What is it like to actually use VMware Cloud on AWS?...

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/09/15

Adam Fisher (@BonzoVT), Cloud & DevOps Engineer at RoundTower Technologies, visits the podcast to talk about VMware Cloud on AWS (AKA VMC), and what it's like to actually use and administer it in a production environment. We also talk about how people backup VMC.

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44:30

What makes Rust a good, safe programming language?

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/09/08

Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding, the authors of the Rust in Motion video series, join us to talk about Rust and why it makes such a "safe" programming language. We discuss what it means to be a safe programming language and how Rust accomplishes that.We also discuss the upcoming free Live@Manning Rust Conference.Finding Rustaceans weird but intriguing? Secretly wanting to become one? Tune-in, Sep 15, to the live@Manning #Rust conference to find your #Rustlang pincers! http://mng.bz/qNoASomewhere in

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42:26

Proliferation of the edge, containers, & how to...

The Backup Wrap-Up ·

2020/09/01

Gina Rosenthal (@gminks) joins us on this week's podcast to talk about the edge, Kubernetes, and how to protect it all. Good conversation that also includes som Texas Brisket talk!We also mention the Women in Tech conference that will go live on October 13. Here's what they have to say about themselves:When the girls get coding!. Join us on your screens, Oct 13, for the live@Manning “Women in Tech” conference to celebrate the rising movement of women in technology. http://mng.bz/7GZmWe still have a

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