Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Assignment of responsibilities
– Written in the SA’s job description
• Acceptance of accountability
– A signed form indicating that the backup was
complete, verified and secured
The Actual Backup
• Hardware
– Choose the media type
– Centralize the backup to reduce redundancy of
hardware
– Not everyone archives the local “C-Drive” on
general purpose workstations. (SLA and user
awareness)
Backup Inventory
• Inventory the backup media
– Tapes and other writable media use barcodes or
hand-written labels
• Inventory the content of the media
– The backup should have a table of contents
included in the backup
Backup Inventory
• The media label information:
– Date
– System identifier
– Partition name(s)
– Backup category: full, differential, incremental
Verify
• The only time you know the quality of your
backup media is when you are doing a
restore.
• This is the worse time to discover you have
problems.
• Restore a small subset of random files from
the backup. Verify their integrity through
differences or checksums.
Verify: Firedrills
• When new equipment arrives, test your
backup procedure on the new equipment to
verify it works correctly
Backup Automation