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The need to guard premises to prevent unauthorized people from entering.
This also includes safeguarding all relevant data against unauthorized access,
using physical access prevention and electronic password protection.
• Types of data that need to be backed up
List the company's types of data and how you want to combine them in backup
specifications, including the time frames available for backups. The company's
data can be divided into categories like company business data, company
resource data, project data, and personal data, each with its own specific
requirements.
• Backup policy implementation
• How backups are done and the backup options that you use
This defines the frequency of full and incremental backups. It also defines the
backup options that are used and whether the backups are permanently
protected and the backup media stored at a security company.
• How the client systems are grouped into backup specifications
Consider how best to group backup specifications. This can be done on the
basis of departments, data types, or backup frequency.
• How the backups are scheduled
Consider using the staggered approach, whereby full backups are scheduled
for different clients (backup specifications) on different days to avoid network
load, device load, and time window issues.
• Retaining data on media, and information about backups
Consider protecting data from being overwritten by newer backups for a
specified amount of time. This protection, called data protection, is on a session
basis.
Define the period of time the Catalog Database should store information about
backup versions, the number of backed up files and directories, and messages
stored in the database. For as long as this catalog protection has not expired,
backed up data is easily accessible.
• Device configuration
Determine devices to use for backups, and the client systems they are connected
to. Connect the backup devices to client systems with the largest amount of data,
so that as much data as possible is backed up locally and not via the network.
This increases the backup speed.
If you need to back up large amounts of data:
• Consider using a library device.
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