Security Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Security+™ Skills, Second Edition

4.6. Task 4.6: Backing Up Data

Data loss occurs all the time from many different causes, including hardware failure, operating system bugs, application bugs, errors and omissions, and power problems, to name a few. Disaster recovery preparation and procedures should be a routine part of every administrator's concerns and activities. The ability to recover lost data must exist.

4.6.1. Scenario

You are responsible for the protection of mission-critical information. You need to be prepared to recover corrupted or lost data files from any day within the last week. You must establish a backup routine to satisfy these concerns.

4.6.2. Scope of Task

4.6.2.1. Duration

This task should take 45 minutes.

4.6.2.2. Setup

Your critical data is on a file ...