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Business Data Backup Essentials

The document discusses backup and restore strategies including the importance of backups, different backup types, storage media options, selecting and manipulating data, objectives of backups, limitations, and restoring data. It provides details on full, differential, incremental backups and considerations for designing an effective backup strategy.

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Business Data Backup Essentials

The document discusses backup and restore strategies including the importance of backups, different backup types, storage media options, selecting and manipulating data, objectives of backups, limitations, and restoring data. It provides details on full, differential, incremental backups and considerations for designing an effective backup strategy.

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BACKUP AND RESTORE

Backup facilities, as provided by the OS, enable all information to be copied, so


that the event of a major problem the information can be easily restored.

There are 3 main areas to consider when designing a backup strategy:

1. Which information should be backed up

2. What technology should be used for the backups

3. When and how often should backups occur


• Backup overview

Evaluating this is the process of developing a backup strategy following points


should be considered:

1. Ensure recovery from major losses

2. Check backups periodically

3. Keep old backups

4. Check file systems before backing up

5. Ensure files are not in use during backup

6. Backup the system before implementing any major changes


• Importance of data backup for businesses

1. How are data backup services useful?

2. Backup types

i. Full backup

ii. Differential backup, incremental backup and

iii. Mirror backup


• Storage, the base of a backup system

 Storage media

 Magnetic tape

 Had disk

 Optical disc

 Floppy disk

 Solid state storage

 Remote backup service

 Managing the data repository

 On-line

 Near-line
• Selection, extraction and manipulation of data
 Selection and extraction of file data
 Copying files
 File system dump
 Identification of changes
 Block level incremental
 Versioning file system
 Selection and extraction of live data
 Snapshot backup
 Open file backup
 Cold database backup
 Hot database backup
 Selection and extraction of metadata
 System description
 File metadata
 Partition layout
 Boot sector
 Manipulation of data
 Compression
 Deduplication
 Duplication
 Encryption
 Staging
 Managing the back up process
• Objectives

Recovery point objective

Recovery time objective

Data security
• Limitations
 system impacts
 Costs of hardware, software, labour
 Network bandwidth
 Network bandwidth
 Implementation
 Scheduling
 Authentication
 Measuring the process
 Backup validation
 Reporting
 Logging
 Validation
• Glossary of backup terms

Backup policy

Backup rotation scheme

Backup site

Backup software

Backup window

Copy backup
Cumulative incremental backup

Daily backup

Disaster recovery

Full backup

Hot backup

Multiplexing

Open file backup


• Restore

o How system restore works

o Restore point types

1. Initial system checkpoint

2. Program name installation restore points

3. System checkpoints

4. Windows auto update

5. Manual restore points

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