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5 Backup Policy

This document outlines a backup policy for an organization. It defines what should be backed up, including servers like the file, mail, and web servers. It states backups are important to ensure successful recovery from failures or disasters. The policy should clearly document backup and restoration issues like who is responsible for backups, when they should occur, what type of backups to use, where backups are stored, how to test the backups, and how to log backup data. The overall goal is to have a well-documented policy to facilitate recovery of important organizational data.

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5 Backup Policy

This document outlines a backup policy for an organization. It defines what should be backed up, including servers like the file, mail, and web servers. It states backups are important to ensure successful recovery from failures or disasters. The policy should clearly document backup and restoration issues like who is responsible for backups, when they should occur, what type of backups to use, where backups are stored, how to test the backups, and how to log backup data. The overall goal is to have a well-documented policy to facilitate recovery of important organizational data.

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BACKUP POLICY

Overview

• This policy defines the backup policy for


computers within the organization which
are expected to have their data backed up.
These systems are typically servers but
are not necessarily limited to servers.
Servers expected to be backed up include
the file server, the mail server, and the
web server
Why Backup Policy ?

It is important for a company to


develop a backup policy for ensuring
a recovery procedure is successful in
case of failures or disasters,
equipment failure, intentional
destruction of data
Well documented backup policy
• The Backup policy document
for the organization should
state clearly about all the
backup and restoration related
issues, etc as given in
following slides….
Scope

This policy applies to all


equipment and data owned and
operated by the organization
When the backup should occur?

• Most companies institute a


night back up because the
backup takes up a lot of
processing power thus
rendering it difficult to carry out
other work
Who should carry out back up?

In a company the responsibility


of backing up and ensuring that
this has occurred successful is
allocated to a particular person,
in some companies this is filled
by the IT manager
What should be backed up?

• To address this factor, it is important to


take into consideration the value of the
data being produced and the frequency of
change.
• Essentially the back up should consist of
important data.
Where should it be kept?

• There are some outside firms which


carry out the backup hence they may
keep the backups. However an
equally appropriate place in which to
keep a backup would be in a fireproof
safe, however it would additionally be
helpful to keep them somewhere
apart from the office.
What media should be used?

• If the data is extremely important a


suitable method of storing a backup would
be a Redundant Array of inexpensive
disks (R.A.I.D), this method means that
transactions are simultaneously copied to
three separate disks enabling the disks to
placed in different places. This is common
place in organisations where the data is
important thus the consequences of losing
such files can prove devastating.
Other Storage media
• Magnetic tape
• Hard disc
• Optical storage
• Floppy Disc
• Solid state storage – USB flash drives
• Remote backup service -- backing up via
the internet to a remote location
What type of back up should be
used?
• The backups include full back up and
Incremental, Full backup entails that all
files are backed up on a daily basis,
however this is time consuming and not
necessary in places where the data is not
changing on a constant basis, in which
situation an incremental backup would be
deemed necessary.
• Incremental backup is where a
full backup is perhaps carried
out on a weekly basis, but
daily only the files which have
changed are backed up
The prospect of data logging

• Data logging needs to be carried out to


show who carried out the last backup and
when it was done. This enables the
organisation to know when last backup
was carried out thus enabling company to
track backups.
The testing of back up plan

• Testing the backup plan is necessary to


ensure that the backed up files can be
implemented if the worse occurs.
• Thus if the backup plan is not tried, it may
come to a point where the system files are
lost and it was impossible to restore files.

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