Strategic Business Insights, or SBI, is the former Business Intelligence division of SRI International, the folk that invented the first computer mouse. Headquartered in Silicon Valley (Menlo Park California) — with offices in Japan, the United Kingdom, and New Jersey—SBI has a global reach that works across a wide range of government and business sectors, including electronics, health care, energy, and financial services. Jon Hammar has been the IT Manager in charge of protecting their data for the last twenty years.
Jon and SBI have relied on Retrospect as a core component during those years and Jon kindly agreed to let us interview him to find out how he uses Retrospect – and how he plans on incorporating Backblaze and the Backblaze B2 service that Retrospect recently supports.
Background
Aside from SBI’s desktop machines, Jon uses Retrospect to protect their outward facing servers, notably their web server with over 40,000 documents. According to Jon, “these servers require a fairly high uptime” and need to be available 24×7. Jon uses both traditional backup scripts and also duplicate scripts with the replace if source is newer option to avoid copying files that are already present.
