If the SLA stipulated by the business says that the IT environment requires recovery in a short period of time, we soon came to the conclusion that doing this restore by a backup tape does not make sense, after all, we are subject to the restoration being time consuming using this type of media. Therefore, take into account the SLA of the business and not the neighbor. I emphasize once again… These are your deadlines and your goals.
Remember that every backup environment has two terms which are called RPO and RTO. Also remember if your company has any type of auditable certification that may require information from 1, 3, 5 years ago or more.
Remember to take into account if your company has a need to comply with any specific legislation. Understand the business and establish methods, steps and deadlines consistent with your business. You have your backup window! You have your data retention need. Focus on the real needs of the environment and d on't go on talking about what should be done just because you saw company X or Y applying within their backup policy. Bring together the people who are responsible for business continuity. Since you are responsible for backing up your environment, you are also very likely to understand the business necessity. This second topic is fully in line with the first.
Write a document from scratch about your environment. So, no one better than you to understand the data protection environment and landscape. So, forget about any kind of templates or pre-made documents about backup policy. So I decided to talk about some topics that I consider important to include in any backup policy.Ī backup policy is a document about your backup routine. On this document we can gather all the information that is considered useful during the backup process or even during a moment of disaster that involves the failure of one or more IT services to operate. The backup policy is nothing more than a document that gathers all aspects related to the workload that the backup exerts on an IT environment. In today's post I decided to address what are the aspects that surround a backup policy and why it is important to have one. However, little is said about Backup Policy. Much has been said about backup and data protection.
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