Even EastEnders’ Backup
So why aren’t you?
The UK TV soap “EastEnders’” is creating a ‘back-up’ tape in case of crisis. The UK soap is coming up for its 25th anniversary. To celebrate the BBC are putting on a “live” episode … which strikes me in the first instance as madness. I mean, if you don’t have to, why make things difficult for yourself? Mind you, this is what we do all the time – business is permanently “live”. Anyway The Beeb (BBC TV) will shoot a back-up tape – just in case anything should fall foul during the live episode.
Makes sense to me … the tape will only be played if something goes ‘seriously wrong’ during the live broadcast on Friday 19th February, the date of the soap’s 25th anniversary. As with most of these long running programmes there will be a cliff-hanger scene and a “reveal”, I think they call it, scene.
The idea is that the soap’s team will film the rehearsal, including the various versions of the “reveal” scene, so that should something goes seriously wrong, they can play the tape.
Sounds like tape backup to me … Isn’t this what we do for our businesses? Executive producer Diederick Santer is quoted as saying, “But we won’t be using it if anyone just fluffs a line or missed a cue. In those cases, we’ll power on using our improvisational skills. It’s really just for technical back-up in case of a proper crisis.”
Although the soap will only use the backup tapes if something seriously goes wrong we, in business, have the ability to restore individual files should we “fluff a line”. By deploying both best-of-breed data protection and best-of-breed system recovery solutions, enterprises are in a better position to keep their business up, running.
For many companies, protecting remote office data can be a challenge. Companies may perform tape backups at each remote office, but this approach can be unreliable, cumbersome, and expensive. The alternative method, creating backups over a WAN, also poses problems because of the amount of data and the cost of bandwidth. Technologies like deduplication and/or archiving addresses these hurdles and helps companies to efficiently manage and protect remote office data.
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