What is a synthetic backup? Innovative information protection strategies
The growth of global businesses in recent years has been enormous. Globalization has enabled companies to work collaboratively in a decentralized manner, which has led to an ever-increasing amount of information that needs to be processed, stored, and protected.
The technological development of different types of backup systems has aimed to ensure that this information, the most valuable asset of organizations , is not lost; or, if it is, that they know how to react appropriately. In this post, we will focus on synthetic backup, one of the most advanced technologies currently used in IT security.
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About backups and their types
Backups refer to methods for protecting and recovering data in cases of loss, corruption, or natural disaster . The sophistication of these backup techniques is constantly increasing. Among the most common types of backups are:
- El itinerary: primary operation for any data storage strategy.
- El incremental: Updates files that have been modified since the last backup of any type.
- El differential: copies the entire amount of data that has changed since the first full backup performed.
Innovations in the method: synthetic backup
One of the problems with traditional data storage methods is the high investment in resources, since a new complete backup must be performed periodically, which implies information transfer time, space and network infrastructure, etc.
Synthetic backups solve this problem. This method initially involves updating the basic data copy using traditional incremental backups; subsequently, all these additional backups are read from the full backup, synthesized into a final backup corresponding to the current state, and thus avoiding the need to perform a full backup.
Advantages of synthetic backup
Thus, the main advantages offered to organizations in terms of technical resource optimization are:
- Reduce the load on the origin server While synthetic backups are created in the backup repository, not on the source server.
- The amount of data transferred from the source server to the backup repository is significantly reduced (even with very large files), substantially reducing the network load of data copies.
The applicability of this method is absolute in decentralized companies with high information flow, since updating data on the server can be done in much less time and, ultimately, the investment of resources will be lower in the long term ; which, in strategic terms, is the best option and is a guarantee of protection of our information and IT security against any contingency.
