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Resilient Backup and Business Continuity That Works Under Pressure
Backups are essential, but a backup system is not the same thing as recoverability. Resilience depends on knowing what must be restored, in what order, by whom, and within what business expectation. Identify critical services, recovery priorities, dependencies, tolerable data loss, and alternate operating procedures. Protect backups from unauthorized change, monitor failures, and test realistic recovery exercises. Testing is where assumptions become evidence. A restore that works in a lab may...