Security Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Security+™ Skills, Third Edition

Task 4.6: Backing Up Data

Data loss occurs all the time from many different causes, including hardware failure, operating-system bugs, application bugs, errors and omissions, and power problems, to name a few. Disaster-recovery preparation and procedures should be a routine part of every administrator’s concerns and activities. The ability to recover lost data must exist.

Scenario

You are responsible for the protection of mission-critical information. You need to be prepared to recover corrupted or lost data files from any day within the last week. You must establish a backup routine to satisfy these concerns.

Scope of Task

Duration

This task should take 45 minutes.

Setup

Your critical data is on a file server, but you have no tape drive. You ...