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Backup Plan Assessment 1

There are many causes of data loss from hardware failures to malware or physical damage. To prevent data loss, businesses should create regular full, differential, and transaction log backups. Full backups are done weekly while differential backups are daily and transaction logs backup hourly. Backups are stored both onsite for quick access and offsite for disaster recovery. System administrators are responsible for managing backups and restores to protect business data from failure or loss.

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Backup Plan Assessment 1

There are many causes of data loss from hardware failures to malware or physical damage. To prevent data loss, businesses should create regular full, differential, and transaction log backups. Full backups are done weekly while differential backups are daily and transaction logs backup hourly. Backups are stored both onsite for quick access and offsite for disaster recovery. System administrators are responsible for managing backups and restores to protect business data from failure or loss.

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Backup Plan Assessment 1

The types of failures and possible causes of data loss


There are many different types of ways to achieve data failures, while most case scenario the biggest
cause of database failure is mostly Hardware failure, other such types of data failure include Viruses
and damaging Malware, Mechanical damage of hard drive, Power failures, Theft of computer,
Spilling liquids and other water damage, fire accidents and explosion. The most common way to
overcome this data loss is to create multiple full backups of each device, and to keep these backups
off site in case of site damage.

The 3 different types of backups in SQL Server and what they contain
Full Backups - Full backups are complete backups of the database, usually these backups contain
everything within the database.

Differential Backups – Differential backups are backups of files that have been updated since the
previous backup. Essentially if only one table within the database has been altered then only that
table is backed up.

Transaction Log – A transaction log contains every transaction within SQL, such as storing data of
new data within the database. This is useful to maintain as it’s able to assist the restoration of a
database if Transaction log is not corrupted.

The type of the storage medium to be used


Each backup will be made on a hard drive disk on the network because of its reliability. Using
magnetic tape as a storage solution has become outdated since the creation of hard drive disks,
though magnetic tape is cheaper; it does allow for data to become loss or corrupted far easier.
Hence using hard drive disks are the easiest and more efficient and effective solution.

How often backups are done in a typical business


Differential backups are done at the end of the day by the system admin, full backups are done on a
Friday night at the end of the week once business hours are over, and transactional backups are
done once every hour throughout business hours.

Where the backups should be stored


Backup files should be stored within 2 different locations. The most recent copy of the backup
should be stored onsite for ease of accessing in case of failure, and a complete archive of backups
should be kept off site in case of fire damage or earthquake etc. This is done to minimize data lost so
that business will be able to continue if the site was too damaged.

Who should be responsible for backups and restores


A system admin are usually the ones responsible for organizing backups and restores as they will
have admin rights on each system connected to the database and network.

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