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

22 on page 316:

Table 22 Amount of data to be backed up

Location

Data (in GB)

ABC Cape Town

100

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Backup scenarios

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HP B6960-96035 How long data should be kept, Type of data Max data storage time, Amount of data to be backed up, Location