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What is a Data Backup Strategy?

March 29th, 2010

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A Data Backup Strategy is a plan, method, or series of tasks for obtaining a specific goal – safe data backups! The main factors in a data backup strategy are the following:

  • Backup medium – The destination backup medium depends on the size of the data being backed up. For smaller amounts of data a low capacity removable drive such as, Pen or Zip drive may be adequate. As the data size increases, you need to have large capacity drives such as, USB external hard drives and for medium to large organizations; a tape drive is usually the backup medium.
  • Location of the backup medium – The backed up data needs to be held in a safe and secure place. Read more »