8.6. Exam Essentials
Understand the aspects of disaster recovery.
Disaster recovery is concerned with the recovery of critical systems in the event of a loss. One of the primary issues is the effectiveness of backup policies and procedures. Offsite storage is one of the more secure methods of protecting information from loss.
Know the types of backups that are typically performed in an organization.
The three backup methods are full, incremental, and differential. A full backup involves the total archival of all information on a system. An incremental backup involves archiving only information that has changed since the last backup. Differential backups save all information that has changed since the last full backup.
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