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.
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.
Scope of Task
Duration
This task should take 45 minutes.
Setup
Your critical data is on a file server, but you have no tape drive. You ...
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