Type of data |
| Maximum downtime |
Company resource data |
| 6 hours |
Project data |
| 1 day |
Personal data |
| 2 days |
|
This recovery time mainly consists of the time needed to access the media and the time required to actually restore data to a disk.
•How long specific types of data should be kept
Table 21 on page 316 shows how long data should be kept. This has implications on the amount of backup media required.
Table 21 How long data should be kept
Type of data |
| Max data storage time |
Company business data |
| 5 years |
Company resource data |
| 5 years |
Project data |
| 5 years |
Personal data |
| 3 months |
|
•How media with backed up data should be stored and maintained
Media should be kept in the tape library in the computer room. All data included in the company backup system should be archived in full every week and incrementally every day. The data should be stored at a security company.
•Amount of data that needs to be backed up
The amount of data that currently needs to be backed up is shown in Table
Table 22 Amount of data to be backed up
Location | Data (in GB) |
ABC Cape Town | 100 |
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316 | Backup scenarios |