Nine Things You Should Know about Documents Backup
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Backups are secondary copies of documents, applications and system data that are meant to help restore the system environment in case a system or data disaster strikes. Archives, on the other hand, are primary data that have become inactive or infrequently active.
1. Unless back up procedures and systematized, and implemented without fail, it can fail to serve the intended purpose of disaster recovery. In such a case, the backup might be found incomplete or irrecoverable and the recovery might be partial at best.
2. Backups have to balance two opposing pulls. On the one side there is the pull to copy anything and everything typically leading to considerable redundancies. On the other side, there is the pull to minimize costs by copying only a minimum of data and also by not attending to time-consuming routines like testing the recoverability of data. Click here for details.
