Chapter 10
Backup and Recovery
One of the most important tasks in the IT industry is ensuring that the data and services of a business are safe. Computers, storage, and networking are complex; no matter how many redundancies we install, something can break, and without a working backup—from which we can restore data successfully—we can lose critical information and line-of-business applications. Those are the days that administrators have nightmares about!
Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 aimed to simplify how we do backup. Unfortunately, it is fair to say that backup with Cluster Shared Volumes was difficult to engineer well without understanding and designing for the complexities of redirected I/O. Many learned this ...
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