Curtis Preston, aka “Mr. Backup,” has been in the backup and recovery space since 1993. He’s written four books, hosts a podcast called “Restore it all,” founded backupcentral.com and is a tech evangelist for SaaS data protection company Druva. We talk about disaster recovery, the role of good backup in ransomware situations and why the data recovery person and the information security person in your company need to become fast friends and start sharing notes. Also, why we’ve all been completely wrong about tape backup systems.

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0:00 - Cyber Work intro
2:40 - Mr. Backup origin story
4:01 - How backup and recovery has changed
7:44 - Data duplication during a disaster
9:45 - Speed of data recovery changes
12:47 - Benefit to physical data backups
15:37 - Common long-term data backup mistakes
19:04 - Other issues with data recovery
23:22 - Limits of disaster recovery
34:16 - Encryption options
39:44 - Jobs in data backup and recovery
44:54 - Benefit to learning data backup and recovery
46:53 - Data backup and recovery outlook
52:52 - What is the Restore It All podcast?
56:15 - What is Druva?
59:45 - Where can I learn more about Mr. Backup?
1:00:32 - Cyber Work outro

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Data backup in ransomware situations | Guest Curtis Preston, aka “Mr. Backup”