Unit 10 Assignment 1
Michael Henry
NT1230 Unit 10 Assignment 1
My hypothetical company is a small online gaming company called Game Zone. Seeing as how this is an online company, backing up of data and applications is crucial. The follow is the backup plan I would suggest.
* The company should back up all online users profiles and gaming applications. I would also suggest redundant servers.
* The rotation should be done every day due to the constant change of user profiles and the fact that new material is always being added to keep games up to date. Full backups should be done weekly with differential backups done daily. The full backup should be done at the start of every week at the lowest peak of online use and the next 6 days done with differential.
* Seeing how this data is the life blood of the company it should be taken offsite daily.
* If data on the current server is lost only that day’s activities is lost.
* If they have redundant servers then down time will be minimal depending on configuration, minutes. If all servers lose their data then recover time may exceed hours. There is no paper trail to recover non-backed up data as all information is online.
* Since the company exists only online restore time would be long due to the need to reload all gaming apps and user profiles. Contingency plan must be drawn up for all possibilities. Compile a list of all eventualities then create procedures to recover the data. All procedures are to be tested to make sure they work.
* Data should constantly be tested to make sure there is no corruption or lost. The redundant servers should greatly help with this. When the data is taken off site there should be a working sever there to test the backup upon arrival. All checks should be logged.
* The onsite updates the responsibility of the onsite IT team, and ultimately the IT supervisor. The responsibility of the restore includes the same people plus the OK from management. All parties need to be kept updated with current
NT1230 Unit 10 Assignment 1
My hypothetical company is a small online gaming company called Game Zone. Seeing as how this is an online company, backing up of data and applications is crucial. The follow is the backup plan I would suggest.
* The company should back up all online users profiles and gaming applications. I would also suggest redundant servers.
* The rotation should be done every day due to the constant change of user profiles and the fact that new material is always being added to keep games up to date. Full backups should be done weekly with differential backups done daily. The full backup should be done at the start of every week at the lowest peak of online use and the next 6 days done with differential.
* Seeing how this data is the life blood of the company it should be taken offsite daily.
* If data on the current server is lost only that day’s activities is lost.
* If they have redundant servers then down time will be minimal depending on configuration, minutes. If all servers lose their data then recover time may exceed hours. There is no paper trail to recover non-backed up data as all information is online.
* Since the company exists only online restore time would be long due to the need to reload all gaming apps and user profiles. Contingency plan must be drawn up for all possibilities. Compile a list of all eventualities then create procedures to recover the data. All procedures are to be tested to make sure they work.
* Data should constantly be tested to make sure there is no corruption or lost. The redundant servers should greatly help with this. When the data is taken off site there should be a working sever there to test the backup upon arrival. All checks should be logged.
* The onsite updates the responsibility of the onsite IT team, and ultimately the IT supervisor. The responsibility of the restore includes the same people plus the OK from management. All parties need to be kept updated with current