What is a Data Backup?
Definition
Copying data to secondary location for recovery after data loss, corruption, or disaster. Data backup strategies specify frequency (hourly, daily), retention (30-90 days), location (on-site, cloud), and testing schedules with automated backup verification."
Why This Matters
Data backup protects against data loss from deletion, corruption, or disasters. Verify backup frequency, retention periods, and recovery testing. Untested backups provide false confidence.
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Disaster Recovery
Security & Compliance
Plans and procedures for restoring IT systems and data after catastrophic events including backup strategies, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, and business continuity plans.
Backup Strategy
Security & Compliance
Plan for data protection including backup frequency, retention periods, storage locations, encryption, testing schedules, and recovery procedures following 3-2-1 rule (3 copies, 2 media types, 1 off-site).
Business Continuity
Security & Compliance
Strategies ensuring critical business operations continue during and after disruptions through redundant systems, alternative processes, emergency protocols, and crisis management plans.
Data Migration
Implementation & Deployment
The process of transferring existing data from legacy systems to new software including data extraction, transformation, validation, mapping, and import.
Data Export
Software Features & Capabilities
Functionality extracting data from software in usable formats including CSV, Excel, JSON, PDF, or database dumps.
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