What is a better way to say backup device
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In the context of my backup files are being stored here, rather than this is my oh s**t box incase something happens.
What is a better word or way to explain that?
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@DustinB3403 said in What is a better way to say backup device:
In the context of my backup files are being stored here, rather than this is my oh s**t box incase something happens.
What is a better word or way to explain that?
You mean a more professional explanation? It gets harder to explain it any better than that, lol.
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Yes, more professional is what I'm going after. Also I'm trying to lose the ambiguity of the word backup because it can mean different things based on the conversation and target audience.
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@DustinB3403 said in What is a better way to say backup device:
Yes, more profession is what I'm going after. Also I'm trying to lose the ambiguity of the word backup because it can mean different things based on the conversation and target audience.
What is your expected target audience? C-Levels or your fellow IT Joe?
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Company ownership.
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@DustinB3403 said in What is a better way to say backup device:
Company ownership.
Explain it like car insurance... This what we need for when a minor or major disaster happens (assuming you have this shipped off-site, as you mentioned in your other thread). Just like car insurance, you don't need it until you hit somebody or somebody hits you.
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Well backups have multiple parts. The backup software and the storage device that holds the backed up data.
In some cases they are one in the same, think Unitrends.
In others they are separate, think Xen Orchestra is the software and a NAS device could the storage.
Then you you need to consider, does the software need to be separated from my production? i.e. can I run XO (in this case) on my production servers, or should it be running from it's own server as to be usable in case all of production goes down?
If you're just talking about where the backed up copies of data reside, I'd call them a backup repository (tell manage to think of them like Tapes).
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My stock answer is.... business people have no business talking about under the hood technical details. Any business person or manager that you are talking to about this has decided, for better or for worse, to take on an IT role (even if a cursory one). This is a technical concept and has no business explanation. Keep it technical.
