Who’s the Backup Wallah in your organisation?
What’s a Backup Wallah ? Well, a Chai Wallah is a guy in India who sells tea or coffee by the road side. So in the backup sense, a Backup Wallah is the guy or gal who is in charge of changing the backup tapes.
We’ve always said that tape is a good way of backing up your data provided that it is setup correctly, tested and managed.
However what happens in your organisation when the Backup Wallah goes on holiday?
Do you have a handover plan?
Do you make sure that the backup success/failure emails are rerouted or that the email account is checked?
If you answer no to any of these questions the you need some help to organise your backup plan correctly.
I’ve just returned from a great two weeks in Greece.
Of course, we use backmeup’s online backup service. We have to take our own medicine right?
Since we moved from a tape system to an online service I have stopped worrying about nightly backup tape changes while I am on holiday and only have to worry about the occasional failure (most often due to semail server problems rather than the service itself) which, of course, is fixed post-haste by one of our engineers.
Backmeup can also advise you on back planning and backup strategy. If you have any data plan with us then we will provide this service completely free of charge.
If you prefer to use tape then who better to advise you than a company with over one hundred backup customers managed and a sister company that manages over sixty traditional backup systems.
