BACKUP VS

REPLICATION
Group members
Mohamed Suleiman
Rukia Mohamed
Warda Mbaruku
INTRODUCTION
 The terms backup and replication are often (and inaccurately) used interchangeably. There are
advantages and disadvantages to both, and knowing the difference between these two
technologies
 By starting up let us know first what is the meaning of backup and replication

 What is backup?
Backup involves making a copy or copies of data and storing them offsite in case the original is lost or
damaged. Backup is one of the primary instruments for data recovery.

Recovery from a backup typically involves restoring the data to the original location
A proper backup copy is stored in a separate system or medium, such as (external drive or USB stick, or
something more substantial, such as a disk storage system, cloud storage container, or tape drive,) from the
primary data to protect against the possibility of data loss due to primary hardware or software failure.
IMPORTANCE OF BACKUP
 Data Loss Prevention
We’ve all heard about or experienced a tragic loss of data. The main reason for data backup is to save important
files if a system crash or hard drive failure occurs.
 Operation Plan B
There should be additional data backups if the original backups result in data corruption or hard drive failure. This
option is best done via the cloud or offsite storage. Additional backups are necessary if natural or man-made
disasters occur. Storms and warfare can lead to the destruction of servers and computers due to fires and floods.
Luckily, we are in the age of cloud technology, where backup your data has become easier and more secure than
ever before.

Note that
The best backup is to backup your data via the cloud or offsite storage
There are many software of backing up system over the internet
 Acronis Cyber Backup.
 Veeam.
 Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery.
 Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud for Service Providers.
 MSP360.
WHAT IS REPLICATION
 Simply Replication is the act of copying data and then moving data between a company’s
sites, whether those be datacenters, colocation facilities, public, or private clouds
or
 Data Replication is a broad term used for technologies and processes that create copies of data,
synchronize, and distribute it across a network of servers and data centers. A disaster has
minimal impact on data access due to the number of replicas. The system’s availability is
extremely high, and the recovery process can usually be measured in minutes. Data
Replication, in many ways, solves most of the drawbacks of data backup
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BACKUP AND
REPLICATION
REASONS WHY BACKUP IS
NOT REPLICATION
 Service Levels
Backups typically occur once per day and at night, which means that the potential data loss could be
days or more. When protecting the applications and data that matter to your business, this amount of
data loss is unacceptable. Restoring from a backup, especially a tape backup, can take days; from disk it
might be slightly faster – a few hours
 Reverse Protection
Once applications and data have been made available at a target site, protection must be extended to
include the new data that users are creating. A backup solution will not start taking backups and ship
them back to the production site. Replication technologies will replicate back to the source site,
ensuring the application is still protected both during and after an outage
REASONS WHY BACKUP IS
NOT REPLICATION
 Application Impact
Backups rely on snapshot-based technology. The reason they are taken so infrequently is because this
type of technology drains resources on the server. It is possible to take more frequent copies, but this
comes at the expense of server resources and-user productivity is significantly impacted
 Retention
Backups are normally stored for a very long time for compliance and audit purposes. Depending on how
often they occur, the recovery granularity can be hours, days, or more. Technologies that using
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) offer extremely granular recovery points, often separated by mere
seconds. This gives your enterprise several points in time to recover to, just in case the last point in time
is corrupted.
LIVE DEMO PRACTICAL OF
BACKUP
 What is snapshot
refers to a copy made of a disk drive at a specific moment in time. Snapshots are useful for backing up
data at different intervals, which allows information to be recovered from different periods of time.
 We Will be demonstrate a live demo practical using kali Linux taking a snapshot of the kali
Linux, with some folders created by you student and then we will delete all folder (resemble
as disaster occurred and delete all folder created by you ) and we will try to restore the
machine in that state with our folders which was created
THANK YOU