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Rethinking Old-Fashioned Backup Strategies for the Cloud Age

The cloud brings a technological shift to IT landscapes and their backup strategies and implementations. Relying on well-established on-prem backup rules and patterns is convenient but risky. These backup strategies became popular because they solve critical challenges in the on-prem world efficiently. However, there is no guarantee that these solutions make sense, fit, and are cost-effective when deployed unchanged in a cloud setup.

Let’s look at two widely used on-prem backup strategies – the grandfather-father-son pattern and the 3-2-1 pattern – and explore their relevance in the world of public clouds.

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