How to eliminate data loss in any event of failure - True Disaster Recovery Technology in action
Have you ever experienced data loss or couldn’t access your data during an event of a failure? Then, you’re not alone… Outages, downtime, human error, ransomware attacks, you may put any possible disaster here, can happen at any time to anyone without any exception.
Well, are there any measures to somehow reduce the impact of such a disaster and overcome the consequences without data loss and business continuity interruption? Yes, it’s a backup with Disaster Recovery capabilities. In this article, let’s look at possible disaster scenarios your backup & Disaster Recovery strategy for Jira should be able to handle.
🛡️ Backup for Disaster Recovery - must-have features
Probably, there is no need to say that a sufficient Jira backup strategy is essential to disaster recovery. Otherwise, how to recover data if there is no backup? Thus, let’s examine the backup features that can help you make the data recovery process faster and smoother:
- long-term or unlimited retention, which will allow you to restore your data from any point in time,
- the possibility of storing backed-up Jira data at different storage locations, both cloud and local, with replication capabilities,
- the possibility of applying the GFS rotation scheme which is aimed at performing backups faster with a better storage capacity,
- data encryption with a private custom encryption key,
- ransomware protection, including, among other security features, WORM-compliant storage.
Of course, the list of the necessary backup features is much longer, yet backup best practices for Jira aren’t our topic today. Now we are focused on backup features important for Disaster Recovery.
✍️ Scenarios & Use Cases for Jira Disaster Recovery
Before we jump at the Disaster Recovery scenarios, it’s worth looking at the restore options your backup provider should offer. So, you should definitely have the possibility of point-in-time restore, granular recovery, restore to the same or a new Jira account, restore to your local machine, and no-user recovery option.
Well, now it’s high time to get back to Disaster Recovery… So, what exactly is it? Disaster Recovery is a process of recovering your data and IT systems after the event of a major failure occurs. And to be sure that you can resume your business continuity fast and eliminate data loss, the backup, and DR solution, should foresee any possible data loss scenario - service provider downtime, your IT infrastructure outage, or a backup provider’s downtime.
So, let’s go through each of the scenarios one by one…
Scenario 1 - The server provider’s infrastructure is down
Atlassian is a very reliable and secure service provider, yet you still need to foresee any possible disaster scenario. So, in the situation, when a service provider is down, you should be able to restore your Jira production environment as fast as possible. In this case, your backup provider should allow you to instantly recover your Jira account from the latest copy or from any point in time (remember, we said that unlimited retention is important for a backup solution!) to either the same or a new Jira account, or to your local machine.
Scenario 2 - Your infrastructure outage
We have already said that the backup provider should permit you to back up your Jira data to multiple storage destinations to meet the 3-2-1 backup rule - when you have at least 3 copies in no less than 2 storage locations with one offsite… That’s it!
So, in the situation, when your infrastructure is down, you always have more than one backup, and you can easily restore it from any point in time from any of your storage destinations.
Scenario 3 - Backup provider’s infrastructure’s downtime
Every backup provider needs to be ready for both infrastructure failures and other unforeseen circumstances. Fortunately, companies in the cybersecurity space are the most conscious of this. In any case, when you choose a backup provider make sure that it has a backup plan of its own when something goes wrong.
🌟 Backup + Disaster Recovery = guarantee of business continuity
Every piece of information is a small puzzle of your entire project management process which requires protection. Backup is that measure that can guarantee that you will be able to access and restore your Jira data in any event of a disaster with minimal downtime and recovery time.
GitProtect.io is a comprehensive backup and Disaster Recovery software for Jira that can help to guarantee Jira data accessibility and recoverability in any event of a disaster. With its robust backup features - scheduled customizable automated backups, multi-storage compatibility, replication, full data coverage, unlimited retention, ransomware protection, and restore and Disaster Recovery capabilities, you can have peace of mind that your Jira data is safe and nothing threatens your business continuity.
💡 Pro Backup Tip! When you build your business continuity plan, don’t forget to have backup and Disaster recovery testing from time to time to make sure that your DR plan is effective.
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