Align Backups With Your Data Protection Requirements
Making a copy of your data does not always result in data protection.
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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Allowing your backups to remain misaligned with your data protection requirements will lead to:
- Not knowing if all data is properly backed up, resulting in increased risk.
- Potential financial and legal implications if compliance regulations are not followed.
- Remaining in an unknown state regarding threats, as your backup solution may or may not be providing adequate threat protection.
Align your backups with your data protection requirements to achieve benefits such as:
- Understand data protection requirements of the business when it comes to backup of data, applications, services, and systems.
- Identify and address threats to your data and backups.
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Module 1: Identify Your Data and Protection Requirements
The Purpose
- Identify all data, applications, systems, and solutions that need to be backed up.
- Establish awareness into your regional, industry-specific, and corporate data protection requirements.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand data protection requirements of the business when it comes to backup of data, applications, services, and systems.
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| 1.1 | Identify data, systems, applications, and services to be backed up. |
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| 1.2 | Confirm industry and regional data protection requirements. |
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| 1.3 | Identify business requirements for data protection. |
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Module 2: Assess Your Threats and Restoration Challenges
The Purpose
- Identify threats to your data, explore restoration challenges you may face, and establish a list of features you require in a backup solution.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Threat risks identified and prioritized, restoration workflows created, and a better comprehension of what features and options are required in a backup solution
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Identify and prioritize your threats. |
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| 2.2 | Consider restoration challenges and build recovery workflows. |
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| 2.3 | Build RACI chart to outline roles and responsibilities for recovery. |
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| 2.4 | Explore and confirm backup requirements. |
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Module 3: Align Requirements With Solutions
The Purpose
- Combine all your discovered requirements and use that list to find a suitable backup solution for your organization.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Backup solution evaluated
- Backup testing schedule established
- Backup alignment resulted combined into an overall plan
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Identify shortcomings of your current backup solution. |
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| 3.2 | Create backup solution evaluation template. |
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| 3.3 | Establish backup confidence criteria and recovery testing schedule. |
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| 3.4 | Finalize alignment plan. |
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