From the course: Cloud Computing: BC/DR Best Practices
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BC/DR tools for the cloud
From the course: Cloud Computing: BC/DR Best Practices
BC/DR tools for the cloud
- [Instructor] So now let's look at the types of tools we can leverage for disaster recovery and business continuity in the cloud. So there's two basic categories, backup and recovery. Let's look at backup first. So typically, backup tools are able to protect the line of business applications as well as different deployments and development platforms going forward. So the idea is that they're able to back these things up, whether it's processing, whether it's application files, executables, information data, data files, whatever is needed to be backed up to protect the information, to protect the processing if an outage occurs and you have to restore it and get going again. So ultimately, you have to look at the BC/DR tool, creating a local as well as remote cloud-based backups. How does that work? And so where is the information going to go? That's a primary decision you need to make. In some instances, data that's…