A look at data protection techniques: Recovery-in-place

Recovery-in-place is most common in virtualized environments, but some backup software offerings deliver the feature to bare-metal servers. #Data protection techniques like recovery-in-place have the ability to present a backup job as a volume that can be accessed by the application. The time required to make the volume ready for access varies depending on how the application stores the data and efficiently prepares it. If data is stored in a live, native format, there is almost no time involved in…