system backup

Question 1

what are the all possible causes of data loss?

Answer 1

hardware malfunctions, human error, software corruption, malicious software (viruses), natural disasters, threat from within.

Question 2

what are the possible differences between the data loss consequences

Answer 2

severety, people affected by it, ways to undo the harm.

Question 3

what are the key data loss prevention methods?

Answer 3

failover system, redundancy, removable media and offline storage

Question 4

in simple words explain what does failover system means.

Answer 4

failover system means that when the thing number one is down, you switch to using the thing number two which has the same data.

Question 5

in simple words explain what does redundancy mean.

Answer 5

that is when the same piece of data is held in the two separated places. so basically whenever data is repeated.

Question 6

give an example of removable media

Answer 6

usb card, hard drive …

Question 7

what is offsite storage?

Answer 7

cloud type of thing. like storage online.