You work as a Network Administrator for Net Soft Inc. You are designing a data backup plan for your
company’s network. The backup policy of the company requires high security and easy recovery of
dat
a. Which of the following options will you choose to accomplish this?
A.
Take a full backup daily and use six-tape rotation.
B.
Take a full backup on Monday and a differential backup on each of the following weekdays.
Keep Monday’s backup offsite.
C.
Take a full backup daily with the previous night’s tape taken offsite.
D.
Take a full backup on alternate days and keep rotating the tapes.
E.
Take a full backup on Monday and an incremental backup on each of the following weekdays.
Keep Monday’s backup offsite.
F.
Take a full backup daily with one tape taken offsite weekly.
Explanation:
The backup policy of the company requires high security and easy recovery of data.
Therefore, you should take a full backup daily with the
previous night’s tape taken offsite. Full backup is a good choice because it makes data restoration
easier as compared to differential or
incremental backup. For safe storage, a backup tape less than twenty-four hours old should be kept
offsite.