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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...

Restore test fails due to bad documentation

46 mins; March 24, 2022

Restore Test Failed Due to Bad Documentation

46 mins; March 19, 2022

Should you backup SaaS with BaaS?

35 mins; March 14, 2022

Top 10 Ransomware Attacks of 2021

33 mins; March 07, 2022

Mr. Backup takes on reddit about Microsoft 365 backup

40 mins; February 28, 2022

Mr. Backup Forced to Restore BackupCentral.com!

49 mins; February 21, 2022

Should DR/backup folks report to the security team?

68 hours 3 mins; February 14, 2022

What Can We Learn From University of Kyoto Losing 77 TB of Research Data?

53 mins; February 07, 2022

Free backup tools for MySQL & MongoDB explained by author of Learning MySQL

58 mins; January 31, 2022

Happy Data Privacy Day!

40 mins; January 24, 2022

Does K8s still need DR? O'Reilly K8s Author On the Hot Seat!

57 mins; January 18, 2022

Resiliency expert reviews Major Facebook Outage

56 mins; January 10, 2022

Remembering the Best and Worst of 2021

58 mins; January 03, 2022

IT Admin deletes entire datacenter THEN tests his backups!

58 mins; December 20, 2021

ZFS filesystem in the cloud – just for your backups

64 hours 11 mins; December 13, 2021

Rclone creator Nick Craig-Wood Explains This Powerful Tool

46 mins; December 06, 2021

FujiFilm Tape Evangelist Explains Past, Present & Future of Tape/LTO

52 mins; November 29, 2021

Peter Krogh, who coined "the 3-2-1 rule," on our podcast!

58 mins; November 22, 2021

Mr. Backup and Mr. SQL argue over how to backup SQL Server

55 mins; November 15, 2021

Deep dive into why tape still has a future in storage

54 mins; November 08, 2021

Transfer backups from one product to the next

43 mins; November 01, 2021

Veeam reps explain defense against Conti ransomware

49 mins; October 25, 2021

Stop Ransomware Attacks in Seconds

53 mins; October 18, 2021

ZFS is not magic - it needs backup and RAID

52 mins; October 11, 2021

How good is your backup system, really?

39 mins; October 04, 2021

Restoring quickly from a ransomare attack with a long dwell time

49 mins; September 27, 2021

Protecting Your Network from Ransomware

42 mins; September 20, 2021

Are Apple & Amazon Violating Your Privacy & Does CCPA Work?

50 mins; September 13, 2021

We found a company that verifies backups as a service!

50 mins; September 06, 2021

Is Entity-Level Encryption The Answer to Exfiltration Ransomware?

60 hours 53 mins; August 30, 2021

Is Apple Violating iPhone Users' Privacy?

50 mins; August 23, 2021

CockroachDB: the SQL database as resilient as its namesake

60 hours 21 mins; August 16, 2021

No backups - just beef & bbq

48 mins; August 10, 2021

HYCU VP explains their service to Mr. Backup

58 mins; August 09, 2021

Mr. Backup Grills StorOne on Their Data Protection Story

61 hours 40 mins; August 02, 2021

Emmy Winning Sound Mixer Explains Movie Archiving

55 mins; July 26, 2021

Information Security Expert Says it Must Evolve

41 mins; July 19, 2021

Are You Vulnerable to an Attack like the one on Kaseya?

38 mins; July 12, 2021

Tape Drive Designer Schools Mr. Backup on Tape

63 hours 4 mins; July 05, 2021

Why you need a copy of Modern Data Protection

63 hours 17 mins; June 28, 2021

Can OVH properly redesign their backup infrastructure?

44 mins; June 21, 2021

ComplyTrust: Remembering those you need to forget

57 mins; June 15, 2021

OVH's Backup Service Didn't Work

43 mins; June 07, 2021

How do You Prove Your Backup Service is Real?

47 mins; June 01, 2021

Datacenter manager Dan Frith discusses the OVH Fire

52 mins; May 24, 2021

Dave Russell answers our questions about Veeam

70 hours 4 mins; May 17, 2021

Fortune 100 company considers changing backup product

45 mins; May 10, 2021

Veeam User Warns About Item-Level Retention in Microsoft 365 Backup

55 mins; May 03, 2021

Securing & speeding up network traffic w/o VPN or SD-WAN

50 mins; April 26, 2021

What we learned in 100 episodes of Backup Central's Restore it All

59 mins; April 19, 2021

Kubernetes Expert Explains K8s, the CSI, and backups

55 mins; April 12, 2021

Porteguese University Using Open-Source Backup Tools

52 mins; April 05, 2021

Create a physical air-gap without using tape using portable disk

51 mins; March 29, 2021

Ransomware Victim Tells HIs Story

62 hours 14 mins; March 22, 2021

Bacula: Sucking the Vital Essence from your computers

53 mins; March 15, 2021

Back in my day, backups were really hard

56 mins; March 08, 2021

Distributed Ledger (e.g. BlockChain) expert explains how to use it for security

60 hours 51 mins; March 01, 2021

Blockchain expert explains blockchain & distributed ledgers

55 mins; February 22, 2021

Using backup to refresh your server, laptop, and phone

42 mins; February 15, 2021

Netbackup & Rubrik User Tells Their STory

56 mins; February 08, 2021

Scary data loss stories

44 mins; February 01, 2021

The Very Tape-Centric Backup Views in Finland

56 mins; January 25, 2021

Stop ransomware in its tracks with DNS, DHCP, IPAM!

58 mins; January 18, 2021

Microsoft 365 expert explains why you need to back it up

70 hours 2 mins; January 11, 2021

Microsoft 365 architecture that needs to be backed up

45 mins; January 04, 2021

2021 Storage and Data Protection Predictions

35 mins; December 28, 2020

Inside look at the DDOS attack on Fathom Analytics

46 mins; December 21, 2020

Disaster Recovery after a hurricane - a First Hand Account

55 mins; December 14, 2020

Author of Cloud-Native Patterns explains importance of cloud-native design

46 mins; December 07, 2020

Public Health Expert Explains COVID-19 Vaccine News

38 mins; November 30, 2020

Doctor & Public Health expert explains current state of the pandemic

43 mins; November 23, 2020

Election poll site manager explains US election systems

60 hours 19 mins; November 16, 2020

Dissecting two ransomware attacks on hospitals

41 mins; November 09, 2020

Tape may be cheap, but disk is better for backups

40 mins; November 02, 2020

Why Tape is Cheaper than Glacier for Long Term Storage

61 hours 38 mins; October 26, 2020

Why is it so hard to backup consumer SaaS products?

49 mins; October 19, 2020

The Dangers of Improperly Secured Cloud Accounts

41 mins; October 12, 2020

Real Life Hurricane Disaster Recover Story

46 mins; October 05, 2020

Backing up MongoDB & Cassandra, a deep dive

51 mins; September 28, 2020

Backing up Sharded NoSQL Databases

46 mins; September 21, 2020

What is it like to actually use VMware Cloud on AWS? (AKA VMC)

52 mins; September 14, 2020

What makes Rust a good, safe programming language?

44 mins; September 08, 2020

Proliferation of the edge, containers, & how to protect them

42 mins; September 01, 2020

9 Tips for Disaster Recovery

27 mins; August 24, 2020

What can we learn from the twitter hack

37 mins; August 17, 2020

How to backup a NAS filer?

26 mins; August 10, 2020

One big problem with the Right to be Forgotten and Backups

31 mins; August 03, 2020

Salesfore Expert explains why backing up SFDC is so important

46 mins; July 27, 2020

Are cloud "snapshots" the way to protect cloud resources?

44 mins; July 20, 2020

Thoughts on the Cloud from an AWS Customer turned employee

44 mins; July 13, 2020

Those that do not remember backup history are condemned to repeat it

45 mins; July 06, 2020

Learning from the Honda Ransomware Attack

55 mins; June 29, 2020

GigaOm Analyst explains their latest report on data management

37 mins; June 23, 2020

One year anniversary special! With the voice behind our theme song!

45 mins; June 15, 2020

How Hollywood Picks Backup Products, Part 2

46 mins; June 08, 2020

How Hollywood Picks Backup Products (Part 1)

40 mins; June 03, 2020

Is backup worthless for DR?

31 mins; May 25, 2020

Are Drive Recovery Services a Good Option?

25 mins; May 18, 2020

What workloads are appropriate to backup to the cloud?

42 mins; May 11, 2020

Why Egress Charges are a fact of life in the cloud

21 mins; May 04, 2020

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