Backup/Restore Best Practices

A backup practice is the process of creating new copies of data which serve to deposit the original important stars in an event of data loss. A outperform practice is a technique or methodological analysis of achieving a certain objective, which through practice and experience, has reliably proven to stimulate the desired results. A bare(a) ironware is one in which the original schema is guarded from failures and errors by the provision of multiple components which are utilize interchangeably.This paper will therefore focus on some of the best backup practices in use and also determine whether a safe(p) backup system is better than a redundant hardware. A telephone number of backup practices are employed to ensure a reliable fashion of recovering data some of which are elucidated below. Developing backup and touch on plans and testing them is a major milestone in ensuring that all the stored data is secure. Planning on when, where, and how data is stored and backups performed is critical in quick convalescence after a disaster strikes (Amini, Peiris, & Khnaser, 2006).Training of personnel on backup and amend procedures can never be overlooked. Basically, this depends on the level of earnest of the profit system in which such roles are assigned to members of the Administrators group for high security networks while for minimum and medium security situations, other staff members can be thoroughly trained. Both the storage devices such as tape drives and storage media such as tapes and disks should be highly secured so as to use them together with computer backups in shield of data loss as long as one has administrative privileges for their access.One should always opt to create a backup log, shanghai it and store it in order to assist in locating particularized files if the drive or system fails (Amini, Peiris, & Khnaser, 2006). A good backup dodging is only reliable if the knowledge of data recovery is not held by only a single person s ince this can lead to rile in case of breakdown of the IT system and the person is not available.According to Schonig & Geschwinde, if the bulk working with a system have redundant knowledge astir(predicate) how it works and what should be done in case of failure, it does not serve up no matter how redundant and reliable the IT system is (2002). A redundant hardware still does not save the situation in case of fire or any other disaster and especially if both the backup and the original data are all stored in the said(prenominal) location. In such as case everything ends up being sunk in which case the data is lost and cannot be retrieved.Where only the more or less recent backup is available, something might go amiss in the system unnoticed resulting in errors and difficulties in data recovery. Therefore, a redundant hardware is greatly advantageous only if a good backup strategy is constantly adopted by ensuring that the best backup or restore practices are in place. Refere nces Amini, R. , Peiris, C. , & Khnaser, E. N. (2006). How to Cheat at Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network. Boston Syngress. Schonig, H. , & Geschwinde, E. (2002). PostgreSQL devellopers handbook. St. Louis Sams Publishing.