Backup procedure
The preferred backup methodology comes in the form of two external USB hard Drives that would be adopted in a 2-way rotational cycle
ensuring that your intellectual property is fully backup up and stored off-site to safe guard all of the intellectual property
against the threat of fire or theft.
A complete backup of all centralised data should be made once a week of a given evening, starting at an hour that experiences the
least network activity. All other evenings of a week should also have a backup starting at a similar hour with a differential backup
scenario adopted in order to maximise allotted storage space. The external USB drives are to be switched and it is recommended that
the alternating drive be taken off-site each time the full backup is scheduled to take place.
Favoured Backup Policy for a SME:
- Two external USB hard Drives per data server.
- A 2-way rotational cycle ensuring that your intellectual property is fully backup up and stored off-site.
- Grandfather-Father-Son policy in place. Week day evening run backup (son), Weekly off-site rotation (father) and a ‘leapfrog’
storage on USB external drives applied (grandfather).
- To store offsite, simply means an insurance policy for Intellectual data from the potential loss due to fire or theft.
- The Admin backup policy is set to cover student demographics, course outlines, general admin correspondence and financials
To follow on further with the next steps within the AnP service cycle:
... to return to project implementation
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