{"id":4381,"date":"2014-11-21T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:18:13","slug":"not-backing-up-a-server-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/not-backing-up-a-server-crazy","title":{"rendered":"Not backing up a server? 4 examples of comparable insanity  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/not-backing-up-a-server-crazy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/not-backing-up-a-server1-e1418098246826.jpg\" alt=\"not backing up a server\" width=\"605\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They say the true definition of insanity is performing the same action over and over, expecting a different result each time. \u00a0They&#8217;re wrong. \u00a0Huddle in now, because we&#8217;re going to let you in on a little secret &#8211; the\u00a0<em>true<\/em> definition of insanity? \u00a0Not backing up a server!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you&#8217;ve ever even been in the same room as a server, you probably already know two things:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\">1 &#8211; the roles they perform and data they contain are vital to business continuity, and have been for longer than most people you&#8217;ll meet in nightclubs\u00a0have been alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\">2 &#8211; they can break, crash or become corrupted more easily than a drunk politician behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">That&#8217;s why backing up a server is not only good practice, it&#8217;s probably about as good an indicator of sanity as you&#8217;ll find.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Still not convinced? Here are 4 examples of activities that are just as crazy as server backup negligence.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">4. Skydiving without a second parachute<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/skydiving-270135_640.jpg\" alt=\"backing up a server - skydiving\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/skydiving-270135_640.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/skydiving-270135_640-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">When you&#8217;re plummeting 10,000 feet at terminal velocity towards death by Terra Firma, relying on just one sheet of nylon wrapped in a backpack is crazy. \u00a0Main chutes fail to open with alarming regularity, which is why skydivers carry a backup chute. \u00a0Not to do so is something you wouldn&#8217;t even consider. \u00a0So why wouldn&#8217;t you apply the same principle to protecting your servers?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">But BackupAssist, you exclaim, surely that&#8217;s a false analogy! Au contraire, dear reader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Dealing with technology in general is a lot like being in free-fall &#8211; everything&#8217;s great until suddenly it&#8217;s not. \u00a0This is particularly true of servers, because if you work in IT you\u00a0<strong>will\u00a0<\/strong>experience a server failure at some point in your career. \u00a0The question then, becomes just\u00a0\u00a0how much data you&#8217;re going to lose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Perhaps you&#8217;ll be able to troubleshoot and get it \u00a0up and running again with just a bit of downtime but no data loss &#8211; this is the equivalent of your main chute opening. \u00a0But if your server is fried and you need to recover to bare-metal, you&#8217;d better hope that second chute opens. \u00a0Otherwise it&#8217;s just the hard, uncaring ground racing up to meet you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After all, to quote a\u00a0truism, it&#8217;s not the fall that kills you &#8211; it&#8217;s the landing.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">3. Shark swimming without a cage<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/great-white-shark-398276_640.jpg\" alt=\"backing up a server - shark swimming\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/great-white-shark-398276_640.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/great-white-shark-398276_640-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Let&#8217;s be more specific. \u00a0Shark swimming without a cage after having just dumped a bucket of fish-guts in the water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In this scenario, what&#8217;s going to happen is a feeding-frenzy comprised of jagged teeth and pre-historic murder. \u00a0The cage is what prevents you from being caught in the middle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In the realm of IT\u00a0the merciless predators aren&#8217;t over-sized fish with a predilection for violence, they&#8217;re tech-savvy cyber criminals with a predilection for exploiting vulnerable systems for cash. Yep, once again we&#8217;re talking ransomware.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In reality, every IT environment is swimming with sharks. \u00a0Cyber criminals are always circling, looking for a vulnerability. \u00a0Should they find that vulnerability, that&#8217;s your chum in the water &#8211; the feeding-frenzy commences. \u00a0Reliable backups are your cage\u00a0and\u00a0ensure that even if the sharks get a taste for blood, they can&#8217;t cause any real damage. \u00a0If you&#8217;re not backing up a server when that frenzy kicks off, you&#8217;re in a lot of trouble.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">2. Travelling to Mars with no way to get home<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/mars-11608_640.jpg\" alt=\"backing up a server - mars\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/mars-11608_640.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/mars-11608_640-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">One day, we have full confidence that humans will be able to colonize Mars. \u00a0One day. \u00a0And perhaps one day, backing up a server won&#8217;t be necessary either, who knows what the distant future holds. \u00a0But for right now,\u00a0if you&#8217;re heading off to Mars you&#8217;re going to need\u00a0a way back again &#8211; and if you&#8217;re running a server, you&#8217;re going to need backups!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As you may have heard, there&#8217;s currently an initiative going on to send a <a title=\"A one-way ticket to Mars, anyone?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mars-one.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-way expedition to Mars<\/a> in the near future. \u00a0Unfortunately, a whole lot of icy water was dumped on this scheme recently when a study performed by graduate students at MIT indicated that <a title=\"Mars One day, maybe.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/mit-study-finds-fault-wit-mars-one-colony-concept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the plan is untenable with current technology<\/a>. \u00a0In fact, the first fatality would almost certainly occur within the first 68 days of the mission and if the colony have no way to return to Earth, the chance of survival long-term approaches zero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Here we&#8217;re going to use the &#8216;way back to Earth&#8217; analogy to represent archival backups. \u00a0You have an environment that&#8217;s working perfectly (your starting point on Earth), but then you decide to make a major change (travelling to Mars). \u00a0The transition to the new system is a success (you make it to Mars safely) and for a while everything seems to be running perfectly (you establish the settlement). \u00a0But then things go wrong (you&#8217;re running out of oxygen) and you desperately need to restore data from the old environment (a ride back home!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Backing up a server and archiving those backups long-term is your lift back home.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">1. Informing a Sys Admin you have no backups without making an escape plan!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/anger-18658_1280.jpg\" alt=\"backing up a server - angry sysadmin\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/anger-18658_1280.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/anger-18658_1280-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The final act of craziness you could make that&#8217;s comparable to the lack of a backup strategy, is to tell your new Sys Admin about that lack of strategy without a good means of escape. \u00a0Seriously. \u00a0Sys Admins understand the importance of backing up a server\u00a0and they know what can go wrong if you don&#8217;t. \u00a0They have a tendency to get very angry about these kinds of things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Your best option:\u00a0back up your servers! \u00a0Back them up regularly and perform test restores to make sure those backups are reliable. \u00a0It&#8217;s the only sane thing to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<i>We&#8217;d love to hear your insane analogies too!<br \/>\n<\/i><em>Leave yours in the comments, tweet @BackupAssist or post to Facebook.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Share this article for the collective mental health of all mankind.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say the true definition of insanity is performing the same action over and over, expecting a different result each time. \u00a0They&#8217;re wrong. \u00a0Huddle in now, because we&#8217;re going to let you in on a little secret &#8211; the\u00a0true definition of insanity? \u00a0Not backing up a server!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,760],"tags":[334,69,335,112],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interest","category-news","category-legacy","tag-backing-up-a-server","tag-server-backup","tag-why-you-should-back-it-up","tag-windows-server-backup"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Not backing up a server? 4 examples of comparable insanity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not backing up a server? 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