Three Principles to Help You Overcome the Database Recovery Crisis

The Blueprint: A Three-Principle Plan for Victory

The Rubrik Preemptive Recovery Engine provides a clear path forward based on three key principles that empower you to stay ahead of the threats.

Principle 1 - Create an Intelligent Historical Record: Imagine having a perfect historical record of your entire database environment-a time-series view that tracks every change to your data, permissions, and configurations. Our engine continuously analyzes and indexes this data, creating a detailed historical record of your databases. This isn't just a backup; it's an intelligent record that powers instant insights.

Action Plan for DBAs:

• Shift your mindset from backups to intelligence. Your backups are a rich source of security telemetry.
  

• Automate threat discovery. The engine creates pre-computed hashes of your data to automatically identify anomalous behavior and potential encryption events across your database snapshots.
  

• The Outcome: When an attack occurs, you're not searching for a clean copy. Our system instantly pinpoints the last known good state, dramatically cutting down your recovery timeline from weeks to minutes.
  

Principle 2 - Build a Data Risk Map: It's all about context. It's not enough to know what data you have; you need to know what data is sensitive and who can access it. But you must have an accurate map of that data that helps you understand your risk exposure before an incident.

Action Plan for DBAs:

• Get a clear view of your sensitive data. The engine automatically scans your database backups to discover and classify sensitive information like PII and other critical business data.
  

• Correlate data with identity. We unify information about your data with user and identity attributes, allowing you to see who has access to your sensitive database tables and files.
  

• The Outcome: You'll have a clear Data Risk Map that lets you prioritize your recovery efforts. You'll know exactly which databases hold critical data and who has access to them, helping you meet compliance requirements and inform security teams without ever touching your production systems.
  

Principle 3 - Automate Surgical Recovery: Now it's time to execute. Once you know where your clean data is, you need to restore it correctly and efficiently. A chaotic recovery can cause further damage. But an automated, intelligent process ensures you get back to business faster.

The Action Plan for DBAs:

• Move from checklists to intelligent Recovery Plans. Stop relying on manual, error-prone checklists. Our engine allows you to create and test automated recovery plans that orchestrate the entire restoration process for your databases.
  

• Restore with application context. Rubrik's engine understands the dependencies between your database and other applications. Your Recovery Plan can automate the boot order and configuration, ensuring that the application comes back online correctly, not just the data.
  

• The Outcome: You can initiate a surgical recovery that restores exactly what you need in the right order. This turns a complex, multi-day operation into a predictable, one-click process that gets your business back up and running with minimal downtime.