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Backups

Backups

- [Instructor] Backups are probably the most important component of any disaster recovery plan, because most businesses today are built around their data. Whether it's proprietary product designs, confidential customer lists, or databases of sensitive information, data drives business. For many organizations, the complete loss of their data would be a disaster of tremendous proportions. Backups provide organizations with a fail safe way to recover their data in the event of a technology failure, human error, natural disaster, or other circumstances that result in the accidental or intentional deletion or modification of data. Backups are a crucial safety net for data-driven businesses. Organizations may back up their data in different ways. The simplest approach is probably copying files from one location to another, but this is manual and error prone. Most organizations use a more sophisticated backup strategy.…

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