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This week, the black team is sharing links about how to choose the correct&nbsp;</div>
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disaster recovery platform and how to ensure your backups are safe and&nbsp;</div>
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secure. Knowing which tools to implement for disaster recover is just as&nbsp;</div>
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important as having the disaster recovery in place. You need to set up a&nbsp;</div>
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system that will be the most efficient.&nbsp;</div>
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Our first two links ([1] and [2]) discuss exactly this. The two part article&nbsp;</div>
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goes into depth about how to know what to plan for (and how to actually&nbsp;</div>
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plan for it). For example, the article says “For example, if all you need to do&nbsp;</div>
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is to be able to locally restore a single workstation, then purchasing a</div>
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disaster recovery solution that includes a virtual recovery environment, and&nbsp;</div>
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automated workflow is completely bonkers”. The article also helps with&nbsp;</div>
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determining main recover targets, objectives, and methods. It provides great&nbsp;</div>
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base-level knowledge about disaster recovery.</div>
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Each different platform that you use has their own backup (and backup&nbsp;</div>
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validation service). Having an invalid backup servers no purpose.&nbsp;</div>
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Azure has ASDK, Oracle has RMAN, etc. Our last link [3] details how one would go</div>
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about setting up backup validation for someone using Rubrik for data management.</div>
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Although it is a pretty tight use case scenario (as it is specific to one plat</div>
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form) the article, albeit short, demonstrates how to use their platform and how&nbsp;</div>
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it can aid in backup and disaster recovery.</div>
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There are plenty of other articles that you all can look up that are also great.</div>
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<span style="color: #000000" class="">[1] <a href="https://www.solarwindsmsp.com/blog/choosing-the-right-disaster-recovery-solution-part-1-defining-the-disasters" class="">
https://www.solarwindsmsp.com/blog/choosing-the-right-disaster-recovery-solution-part-1-defining-the-disasters</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000000" class="">[2] <a href="https://www.solarwindsmsp.com/blog/Choosing-the-right-disaster-recovery-solution-part-2" class="">
https://www.solarwindsmsp.com/blog/Choosing-the-right-disaster-recovery-solution-part-2</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000000" class="">[3] <a href="https://www.rubrik.com/blog/automation-to-validate-in-rubrik-backups/" class="">
https://www.rubrik.com/blog/automation-to-validate-in-rubrik-backups/</a></span></div>
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