Backup Strategy
Strict adherence to a regular backup scheme is essential to maintaining
security and confidence at your ACUMEN business site.
One missed backup can cost you hours of work. Most likely,
ACUMEN is not the only application that you use in your
office. You should extend your backup scheme to include
all mission-critical data and applications. However,
the focus of this section is on the ACUMEN backup plan.
In addition to the following backup recommendations, we ask that you include a CD/DVD burner in your hardware configuration so that your data can be stored in a format we
can restore here at ACUMEN Inc. This is extremely important.
If it becomes necessary to test or repair your data
file, we must have the ability to retrieve your data in a standard format, and sending a CD or DVD
to your Support Rep is often a good way to do this.
Hardware
We highly recommend that all ACUMEN sites use LTO or Iomega Rev tape devices for
their ACUMEN backup. A scheduled backup to LTO or Rev tape is the most reliable,
reasonably priced backup option.
DVD-R is also an effective backup format, although the backup procedure cannot be automated
like a tape backup can. CD-ROMs should only be
used at businesses where the data file is expected to
be very small. Contact your ACUMEN sales representative
if you are thinking of using this for backup.
Software
The software you select to perform your backup depends
in part on the operating system of the machine you will
run it on and in part on the operating systems of the
machine(s) you will be backing up. We recommend the following backup applications:
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