Klara co-founder Allan Jude teams up with Colin Percival, founder of Tarsnap and FreeBSD release engineer, explore the essentials of backups. Together, they uncover game-changing best practices for building a successful disaster recovery plan! Learn about the most commonly encountered pitfalls when creating backups and how to address them using ZFS. We’ll share stories of what happens when your DR plans fail to consider the unique aspects and requirements of your infrastructure. LET'S CONNECT Website: LinkedIn: Bluesky: OpenZFS Support Subscription: Storage Design and Implementation: Thank you to Colin from Tarsnap for joining us: #klaraInc #zfs #openzfs #DisasterRecovery #backup #tarsnap Chapters 00:00 Introductions and Agenda 02:50 That is NOT a backup 03:04 RAID is not a backup 05:43 Copies are not a backup 07:56 Cloud Syncing is not a backup 09:20 Manually is not a backup 11:17 Backups are complicated 13:07 What are backups for 17:02 What to backup 23:57 Backup basics 30:47 When things can go wrong 35:40 Monitoring, testing, security 43:54 About Klara's services 44:52 Q&A