1. IT:Network:Applications 10-150-188

2.  What is the worst that could happen? ◦ It will  When is the worst time that could happen? ◦ That’s when it will  What can we do to prevent it?  What can we do to recover from it?

3.  Physical ◦ Fire Suppression ◦ Floods? ◦ Who’s there?  File System ◦ Rights/Permissions ◦ NTFS vs Share  Authentication ◦ Password required ◦ Change passwords

4.  How are we configured? ◦ At a minimum ◦ Step by step system procedures from building a server to making a folder  Hardware (Bios settings) ◦ What is required to get a system restored  OS ◦ Version; License Numbers; Administrator Password; ◦ IP Addr; Services Installed; Services Config  Helps to check configuration  Helps to rebuild if needed

5.  Security Updates as soon as feasible  Service Packs ◦ When your third party software blesses it ◦ Some software packages can be 6 months behind  Driver Updates ? ◦ If it ain’t broke…well, test  BIOS Updates ? ◦ See above  Optional Updates ?  Use Test Machine(s) / Lab

6.  “It isn’t if the hard drive will fail, it’s when will the hard drive fail.”  User “oops” or PEBKAC ◦ Accident ◦ Intentional ◦ 95% of data loss comes from inside

7.  Full backup is always best ◦ Incremental ◦ Differential ◦ Both handle a file based on the archive bit status

8.  Tape Rotation ◦ Grandfather – Father – Son (GFS)  G: Monthly full; F: Weekly full; S: Daily ◦ Others available: (e.g., Tower of Hanoi)  Think powers of 2  setA every two days; setB every 4 days; setC every 8… MTWHF 1234F:5 1234F:6 1234F:7 1234G:8

9.  Daily backups ◦ Should keep the previous backup off-site ◦ Rotate off-site daily ◦ Quick and easy to restore ◦ Full backup can be rotated every two weeks at a minimum.  FridayA is offsite until FridayB is run

10.  Weekly/Monthly ◦ Kept as long as “needed” ◦ Keep secured  Theft  Larger companies outsource backup storage  Third party companies offering remote backup services (cloud-ish data backup)

11.  Windows Server 2008 R2 does not support tape devices  Backups are trending towards disk to disk backups  System imaging is gaining popularity  Can backup to file or to a remote system

12.  Doesn’t need to be fancy ◦ Microsoft Backup works  GUI is easy to use ◦ Command line options—  Wbadmin.exe  Wbadmin.exe START RECOVERY –version:09/30/2010- 18:30 –items:d:\common –itemtype:File – backupTarget:E: -recursive  You get what you pay for ◦ Symantec Backup Exec ◦ Backup Assist ◦ Storageworks