Backup/Restore Best Practices

A moderation arrange is the process of creating new copies of information which serve to reform the original important mavens in an event of selective information loss. A best practice is a technique or methodology of achieving a certain objective, which through practice and experience, has reliably proven to generate the desired results. A redundant hardware is one in which the primary system is follow from failures and errors by the provision of multiple components which are economic consumptiond interchangeably.This paper will therefore focus on some of the best escort practices in use and also determine whether a good rest strategy is better than a redundant hardware. A number of clientele practices are employed to take care a sure way of recovering data some of which are elucidated below. Developing backup and restore 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 backup s performed is critical in quick recovery after a disaster strikes (Amini, Peiris, & Khnaser, 2006).Training of someonenel on backup and restore procedures can never be overlooked. Basically, this depends on the level of security of the network system in which much(prenominal) roles are assigned to members of the Administrators group for high security net work 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 typesetters case of data loss as long as one has administrative privileges for their access.One should always opt to create a backup log, print it and store it in fix to assist in locating specific files if the drive or system fails (Amini, Peiris, & Khnaser, 2006). A good backup strategy is only reliable if the knowledge of data recovery is not held by only a singl e person since this can lead to trouble in case of breakdown of the IT system and the person is not available.According to Schonig & Geschwinde, if the people working with a system have redundant knowledge about how it works and what should be done in case of failure, it does not help 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 same location. In such as case everything ends up cosmos destroyed in which case the data is lost and cannot be retrieved.Where only the most 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 evermore adopted by ensuring that the best backup or restore practices are in place. References Amini, R. , Peir is, 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.