Backup and Recovery Implementation

Welcome to the Backup and Recovery Implementation Practice Lab. In this module, you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills. 

Backup and recovery are critical for the long-term preservation of our data. Every day, a variety of events can occur that can have an impact on our data. Examples include natural disasters, drive failures, accidental deletion, and cyber-attacks. Backups are our method of restoring that data. It's also important to consider where the data is kept and how it is kept. Some industries, such as the payment card or healthcare industries, have strict rules that govern how data is stored, where it can be stored, and how long it must be kept. Other data types may be identified in the backup and recovery strategy. There are several methods for creating backups, and schemes that use the various styles can be combined to create stronger backup processes, save storage space, and/or speed up recovery time. Good backup practices can also help to thwart cyber-attacks. This module will look at full, incremental, differential, and synthetic backups. You will go over file history and the advantages of enabling it and discuss backup storage, frequency, and testing. You will go over different types of recovery sites and their benefits and drawbacks.