Clients and Case Studies

StackOverflow’s database servers are hosted in a colo facility. They pay by the byte for transfer in and out of their servers, so it’s really crucial to compress the database backups as much as possible. The smaller the backups, the less they pay. They’re already using backup compression, but they wanted to explore more ways…

When I design a backup & recovery strategy for a database, I don’t talk to the developers, database administrators, or systems administrators first.  The first people I go to are the business managers, and I ask three questions: How much money would you lose if you lost the data altogether? How much money would you…