CompTIA Security+™ Deluxe: Study Guide

A.6. Backup Management

If there is something you can take from real estate success and apply to security success, it is this: location, location, location. Now, you might want to change that to backup, backup, backup, but even keeping the original still stresses an important point. Backups are your only insurance against data loss. Without a backup, it is impossible to restore data. However, even the best backups are worthless if you do not protect them against damage or loss in the event of an intrusion, incident, or disaster. Thus, offsite storage of backups is essential. A backup site should be far enough away from the main site that it is not affected by the same disaster. You need to understand your organization's backup strategy and do ...