Does Your Organization Have a Data Backup Policy?
The policy identifies and describes the backup support policy for personal computers inside organizations that can anticipate backup of their data. The systems that are backed up are normally servers, but are not essentially restricted to servers. The servers anticipated to be supported are the file server, the web server and also the mail server.
The purpose of this policy structure is to guard documents in the organization and to be assured that data is not missing and can be recovered during the time of a device failure, unintended demolition of data, or catastrophe.
The policy is intended for all devices and documents privately owned and integrated by the organization.
The backup process is the storage of documents onto magnetic tapes or other offline flash storage media, with the intention of avoiding loss of documents during the time of a device failure or catastrophe.
The Archive process is the storing of old or not recently accessed documents onto magnetic tapes or other offline flash storage media for the reason of discharging online storage space.
The Restore process is the method of taking offline storage documents back from offline media and placing it on an online storage system like a file server.
The complete supports are integrated every weeknight. During those times that there is maintenance and supports are not integrated on Friday, they shall be integrated on weekends.
There will be an individual or group of tapes for every support day, even Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. There will be an individual or group of tapes for every Friday of the month. Supports integrated on Fridays or weekends will be saved for a month and accessed again the following month on the available Friday. The supports integrated on Monday through Thursday will be saved for a week and used again on the next appropriate day of the week.
The Tape drives will be cleaned every week and the cleaning tape will be replaced every month.
Each month, a support tape will be created making use of the oldest support tape or tape group from the tape sets. The service date of every tape will be written on the tape. Tapes that have been accessed longer than six months will be removed and replaced with much newer tapes.
The IT department manager will be assigned as a part of the IT department to integrate typical supports. The assigned individual will create a method for trying supports and testing the capability to restore documents from supports that are updated every month.
The testing process will determine the capability to restore documents from the supports that will be tried out at least once every month.
The user data saved on the hard disk, system state documents and the registration are the information segments that should be included in the data that will be supported.
The systems to be supported must include the file server, mail server, production web server, production database server, domain controllers, test database server and test web server.