Backup and Restoration

Question 1

What are some key backup & Recovery Principles?

Answer 1

1) At least one off-site achieve
2) Controls over storage libraries mirror those for data processing sites
3) Many organizations outsource- choosing a vendor, consider availability standardization, capacity, speed, and price.
4) Backup procedures may be full (all data), increment (data change from a certain time) or differential (data changed since the last full backup)
5) Maintain inventory of backups that identifies data set name, volume, serial number, data created, accounting period
6) Consider privacy, security and confidentiality of the data (HIPPA- make sure you’re following laws for securing that data)
7) Restoration procedures integrated into organizations continuity plan- culture
8) Back and recovery is regularly testing

Question 2

What is rollback and recovery

Answer 2

Go back to archive file that you know is clean and reprocess from that point

Question 3

What is a remote (online) backup by managed provider?

Answer 3

An expert is going to handle doing the backups

Advantages: Automated, experts, off-site, can be continuous

Question 4

What is storage area networks?

Answer 4

Replicate data from multiple sites

Immediately available

Efficient storage for server

Question 5

What is mirroring?

Answer 5

Maintain exact copy of the data set

Files are stored in the same format system (e.g. NOT ZIPPED)

Advantage (very fast)

Disadvantage: Storage

THESE ARE EXPENSIVE!!!!!