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The Backup Wrap-Up

Formerly known as "Restore it All," The Backup Wrap-up podcast turns unappreciated backup admins into cyber recovery heroes. After a brief analysis of backup-related news, each episode dives deep into one topic that you can use to better protect your organization from data loss, be it from accidents, disasters, or ransomware. The Backup Wrap-up is hosted by W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and his co-host Prasanna Malaiyandi. Curtis' passion for backups began over 30 years ago when his employer, a $35B bank, lost its purchasing database – and the backups he was in charge of were worthless. After miraculously not being fired, he...

Salesforce.com's Permission Slip-Up (Another Cloud Disaster)

34 mins; March 25, 2024

KPMG Blunder Proves Microsoft 365 Needs Backup (Cloud Disasters)

41 mins; March 18, 2024

OVHCloud Dumpster Fire (Cloud Disasters)

37 mins; March 11, 2024

Cloud disasters: Musey deletes their own company!

26 mins; March 04, 2024

Cloud catastrophes: Codespaces.com deleted out of existence

36 mins; February 26, 2024

Crafting the Perfect Disaster Recovery Runbook

40 mins; February 19, 2024

To DRaaS or Not to DRaaS? Comparing Disaster Recovery Approaches

39 mins; February 12, 2024

Hot, Warm, and Cold: DR Site Strategies

40 mins; February 05, 2024

Disaster Recovery Site: Build, Buy, or Cloud?

32 mins; January 29, 2024

Disaster Recovery 101: Laying the Groundwork for a Good DR Plan

47 mins; January 22, 2024

Disaster Recovery 101 - Back to the Fundamentals

38 mins; January 15, 2024

Backup Fails at Archive: Billion-Dollar eDiscovery Disasters

53 mins; January 08, 2024

Backup to Basics: Traditional Data Sources

51 mins; January 01, 2024

Get Ready Before You Get Got: Ransomware Response Planning

49 mins; December 25, 2023

To Change or Not to Change Your Backup System

46 mins; December 18, 2023

Why you should care about Copy Data Management

41 mins; December 11, 2023

Snap, Replicate, & Protect: Leveraging Near CDP

40 mins; December 04, 2023

Reborn and Reimagined: Don't Write Off Tape Just Yet

51 mins; November 27, 2023

Virtually Air Gapped: Assessing Cloud Data Protection

50 mins; November 20, 2023

Snapshots vs. Backups: Understanding the Difference

49 mins; November 13, 2023

CDP: The Next Great Thing in DR?

43 mins; November 06, 2023

The Role of Replication in Modern Data Protection systems

45 mins; October 30, 2023

Is it a backup or just a copy?

46 mins; October 23, 2023

The importance of backing up cloud resources

36 mins; October 16, 2023

The Importance of Backing Up IOT Devices

37 mins; October 09, 2023

Hybrid Cloud Storage: Back it up or not?

27 mins; October 02, 2023

Restore it All is Changing Its Name

1 min; September 27, 2023

The Merging Worlds of Information Security and Data Protection

35 mins; September 25, 2023

Why it's process, then people, then technology

35 mins; September 18, 2023

The Unforeseen U-turn: Inside Microsoft 365's Backup Revolution

34 mins; September 11, 2023

Are password managers no longer an option?

39 mins; August 28, 2023

Identity Orchestration: Simplifying Multi-Cloud Identity Management

49 mins; August 21, 2023

Red team leader shares how to think like a hacker

64 hours 35 mins; August 14, 2023

Blue team stories from the cyber attack trenches

57 mins; August 07, 2023

Should you disclose your cyber attack?

55 mins; July 31, 2023

Backup security is abysmal, says backup security expert

45 mins; July 24, 2023

Your backup product is probably lying to you

61 hours 47 mins; July 17, 2023

Former Green Beret advises us on Cyber Security

62 hours 54 mins; July 10, 2023

How to foster a culture of recovery in your organization

61 hours 13 mins; June 26, 2023

How to PROPERLY back up your iPhone (iCloud is not a backup!)

51 mins; June 19, 2023

Cyber expert not happy with state of cybersecurity today

56 mins; June 12, 2023

How do you authenticate with all new hardware?

55 mins; June 05, 2023

You could lose access to iCloud account data forever!

42 mins; May 22, 2023

How to back up and recover a database (Backup to Basics series)

56 mins; May 15, 2023

Flash expert schools Mr. Backup

62 hours 38 mins; May 08, 2023

What are SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR? Are they available as a service?

47 mins; May 02, 2023

What can you learn from the LastPass hack?

55 mins; April 24, 2023

Backing up databases, Part 1 (Backup to basics)

44 mins; April 17, 2023

What computers should you back up? (Backup to Basics Series)

52 mins; April 10, 2023

Can you apply least privilege to private data?

55 mins; April 03, 2023

Six vulnerabilities your password manager might have

62 hours 27 mins; March 27, 2023

What is deduplication and how does it work? (Backup to Basics series)

48 mins; March 20, 2023

Preparing an incident response plan for ransomware

49 mins; March 13, 2023

What to do with your network in a ransomware attack

60 hours 50 mins; March 06, 2023

Could your backup system achieve Sheltered Harbor certification?

53 mins; February 27, 2023

Do you need a managed security service provider (MSSP)?

61 hours 7 mins; February 20, 2023

@vmiss warns about ransomware attacks on VMware

50 mins; February 13, 2023

Block ransomware from writing to your Windows Veeam backup server

45 mins; February 06, 2023

Don't be like LastPass

39 mins; January 30, 2023

Mr. Backup reflects on 30-year career

53 mins; January 23, 2023

Protecting backups from ransomware (Backup to Basics)

46 mins; January 16, 2023

Backup team completes two-year project in three months

51 mins; January 09, 2023

Best of 2022 - Backups, Security, and Ransomware

28 mins; January 02, 2023

Shocking RackSpace Hosted Exchange Ransomware Attack

44 mins; December 19, 2022

Understanding Backup Levels (Backup to Basics Series)

37 mins; December 12, 2022

Risk Management Advice from an industry expert

38 mins; December 05, 2022

What is archive and retrieve? (Backup to Basics)

44 mins; November 28, 2022

What is backup and restore? (Backup to Basics Series)

45 mins; November 21, 2022

Divining Requirements out of the Organization

39 mins; November 14, 2022

Just go vote!

10 mins; November 07, 2022

Getting approval for a new backup design (Backup to Basics Series)

47 mins; October 31, 2022

When to use public or private cloud AND how to protect it

42 mins; October 24, 2022

Why do we even back up? (Backup to Basics Series)

39 mins; October 17, 2022

International lawyer discusses e-discovery in US & other countries

45 mins; October 10, 2022

Your cyber insurance doesn't want to pay for your hack

38 mins; October 03, 2022

Learning lessons from the Uber and LA USD cyberattacks

41 mins; September 26, 2022

Top 5 security mistakes you're making in the cloud

43 mins; September 19, 2022

How to back up Jira

45 mins; September 12, 2022

What are RTO and RPO & how do they drive backup design?

41 mins; September 06, 2022

Why you need a password manager

47 mins; August 29, 2022

Datacore becomes leader in container-attached storage

43 mins; August 22, 2022

M-disc founder explains how it keeps data for 1000 years

45 mins; August 15, 2022

The industry's first $10M data resiliency guarantee (From Druva)

41 mins; August 08, 2022

Warshipping: The latest trick in the bad actor's playbook

37 mins; August 01, 2022

Really inexpensive AND secure storage systems for backup

51 mins; July 25, 2022

Using and backing up Hammerspace's global filesystem

35 mins; July 18, 2022

The Five Most Dangerous New Cyber Attack Techniques (A review of the RSA Keynote)

40 mins; July 11, 2022

Is M-Disc the ultimate archive medium for SMBs and home users?

46 mins; June 27, 2022

Backup practitioner tells stories from the trenches

47 mins; June 20, 2022

Just do something! (about your security and your backups)

47 mins; June 13, 2022

Seven reasons why your restore may slower than your backup

47 mins; June 06, 2022

Data protection warrior explains LTO & RDX

90 hours 50 mins; May 23, 2022

Top seven things you must stop doing with your backups

48 mins; May 16, 2022

How to prepare for an emergency (at home and work)

47 mins; May 09, 2022

Snorkel42, security expert from reddit, explains his security cadence series

54 mins; May 02, 2022

How to prevent ransomware, slow its spread, and respond if you get it

39 mins; April 25, 2022

Vast Data really does appear to be "vast"

60 hours 41 mins; April 18, 2022

A look inside the Conti ransomware group

43 mins; April 11, 2022

Backup is evil (or at least how many people do it is)

48 mins; April 04, 2022

Security expert rips Okta for their response to hack

34 mins; March 28, 2022

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