Need of Data Protection
What is Data Protection?
1. Data protection is the process of safeguarding important data from
corruption, compromise or loss and providing the capability
2. to restore the data to a functional state should something happen to render
the data inaccessible or unusable.
3. Data protection assures that data is not corrupted, is accessible for
authorized purposes only, and is in compliance with applicable legal or
regulatory requirements.
4. Protected data should be available when needed and usable for its
intended purpose.
5. The scope of data protection, however, goes beyond the notion of data
availability and usability to cover areas such as data
immutability, preservation, and deletion/destruction.
6. data protection spans three broad categories, namely, traditional data
protection (such as backup and restore copies), data security, and data
privacy
7. The processes and technologies used to protect and secure data can be
considered as data protection mechanisms
8. and business practices to achieve the overall goal of continual
availability, and immutability, of critical business data.
Principle of data protection
1. The principle of data protection is to deploy methodologies and
technologies to protect and make data available under all circumstances.
2. Storage technologies can be used to protect data by using disk, tape or
cloud backup to safely store copies of the data that can be used in the
event of data loss or interruption.
3. Additional software tools (e.g. cloning, mirroring, replication, snapshots,
changed block tracking, etc.,) are providing another layer of data
protection in addition to traditional backup.
4. Technology advancements mean that it is now common practice to
provide continuous data protection which backs up the data whenever a
change is Cloud backup is also becoming more prevalent as organizations
frequently move their backup data to public clouds or clouds maintained
by third-party service vendors.
5. These backups can replace on-site disk and tape libraries, or they can
serve as additional protected copies of data to provide a disaster
recovery facility.
storage snapshot
1. A storage snapshot is a set of reference markers for data at a particular
point in time.
2. A snapshot acts like a detailed table of contents, providing the user with
accessible copies of data
3. Storage snapshots are often based around the use of a differencing disk.
4. A differencing disk is a special type of virtual hard disk that's linked to a
parent virtual hard disk.
5. When an administrator creates a storage snapshot, the underlying system
creates a differencing disk that's bound to the original virtual hard disk.
6. All future write operations are directed to the differencing disk, leaving
the original virtual hard disk in an unaltered state.
7. The file system is completely unaware of the existence of a differencing
disk.
8. File systems continue to function just as they would on a physical
machine.
Data Deduplication
Data deduplication is a process that eliminates excessive copies of data
and significantly decreases storage capacity requirements.
Deduplication can be run as an inline process as the data is being
written into the storage system and/or as a background process to
eliminate duplicates after the data is written to disk.
The performance overhead is minimal for deduplication operations,
because it runs in a dedicated efficiency domain
Replication
Long Term Retention – LTR
Backup vs Archival
Data regulation, compliance and governance:
