Nt1330 Unit 10 Assignment 1
Unit 10 Assignment 1
Philip Johns
ITT Technical Institute
Unit 10 Assignment 1
Description of the firm:
Pixel Incorporated develops animated shorts segments for its clients and employs 100 people. Pixel employees are users of application servers, email servers, and database technology, their network hardware blends equipment from Cisco and Hewlett-Packard. Pixel is known to transmit information throughout the organization over local area networks and via World Wide Web.
Q: What should a company back up?
A: Backing up baseline configurations (the state of a computer before it is upgraded) so a computer can quickly be restored to its prior state. Backing up servers before they are upgraded.
Backing up the most recent system and user data before you begin switching systems.
Q: What would be the rotation of data? …show more content…
The most common that I found was at (http://www.handybackup.net/backup-rotation-schedule.shtml):
Grandfather – father – Son: According to this backup rotation schedule incremental backups are performed daily, while full backups are done weekly and monthly.
First of all, from one to four media sets are designated for incremental daily backups. As daily incremental backup backs up the least of the data, compared with other backup sessions in this backup rotation schedule, any of these media sets can be referred to as 'son'. These media sets are reused each week on the designated day.
Secondly, full backups are performed weekly - daily incremental backup is not performed on this day. As the first backup needs to be a full backup, the scheme is started on Friday, the day of the full backup. Consequently, the media set used on Friday can be referred to as 'father'.
Furthermore, on the last business day of the month a full backup is performed to a new media set, which can be referred to as 'grandfather'. These media sets are designated for specific months throughout the
Philip Johns
ITT Technical Institute
Unit 10 Assignment 1
Description of the firm:
Pixel Incorporated develops animated shorts segments for its clients and employs 100 people. Pixel employees are users of application servers, email servers, and database technology, their network hardware blends equipment from Cisco and Hewlett-Packard. Pixel is known to transmit information throughout the organization over local area networks and via World Wide Web.
Q: What should a company back up?
A: Backing up baseline configurations (the state of a computer before it is upgraded) so a computer can quickly be restored to its prior state. Backing up servers before they are upgraded.
Backing up the most recent system and user data before you begin switching systems.
Q: What would be the rotation of data? …show more content…
The most common that I found was at (http://www.handybackup.net/backup-rotation-schedule.shtml):
Grandfather – father – Son: According to this backup rotation schedule incremental backups are performed daily, while full backups are done weekly and monthly.
First of all, from one to four media sets are designated for incremental daily backups. As daily incremental backup backs up the least of the data, compared with other backup sessions in this backup rotation schedule, any of these media sets can be referred to as 'son'. These media sets are reused each week on the designated day.
Secondly, full backups are performed weekly - daily incremental backup is not performed on this day. As the first backup needs to be a full backup, the scheme is started on Friday, the day of the full backup. Consequently, the media set used on Friday can be referred to as 'father'.
Furthermore, on the last business day of the month a full backup is performed to a new media set, which can be referred to as 'grandfather'. These media sets are designated for specific months throughout the