Which of the following is the best way to ensure that a company’s backup tapes can be used at a warm site?
A.
Retrieve the tapes from the off-site facility and verify that the equipment at the original site can read them
B.
Test them on the vendor’s machine, which won’t be used during an emergency
C.
Inventory each tape kept at the vendor’s site twice a month
D.
Test them on the equipment maintained within the hot site
Explanation:
A warm site is a facility that will not be fully equipped with the
company’s main systems. The idea of using a warm site is that if a disaster takes
place, the company would bring their systems with them. If they cannot bring the
systems with them because they are damaged, the company must purchase new systems that are exactly like their original systems. So to properly test backups, the
company needs to test them by recovering the data on their original systems at their
main site.