Backup Obligations
September 17, 2009
The NetWorker Blog has a great article discussing the 7 Procedural Obligations of a Backup Administrator.
You should definitely go read the article, but quickly, they are:
- To ensure that all required data is recoverable.
- To maintain a zero error policy
- To maintain documentation for the environment
- To maintain an issues register
- To be across ongoing capacity management and forecasting requirements
- To maintain reports
- To document all data that is not required for recovery
It strikes me that those of us who are Backup Administrators…and fileserver administrators…and webserver administrators….and firewall administrators…etc can all take something from this list. We do “it all”, and one of the things that ties “it all” together is the ability to recover “it all” when it breaks. Backups and archives are how we do that.
Check out Michael Janke’s great article, “Backups Suck“, for the definition of a backup.
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