Could You Get It Back? — TechKnowSurge

About this interactive

The lesson lists what to weigh when designing backups: whether the data can be recreated, how critical it is, the cost, the RPO and RTO, the disruption, the backup windows, security, and how often the data changes. Recreatable data can be built again. A server's operating system can be installed from the download, licensed again and set up again. It takes time, but nothing is lost for good. Nonrecreatable data is gone once it is lost: customer records, who signed in and when, readings taken at a moment that will not come again. Criticality is a separate question. Data can be recreatable and still critical, or nonrecreatable and of little importance, like statistics nobody uses.

What you'll learn

Classify data as recreatable (it can be rebuilt or reinstalled from a source) or nonrecreatable (once lost it is gone), independent of how critical it is, as a first step in backup prioritization

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+

3.4 Explain the importance of resilience and recovery in security architecture.

Key terms

Recreatable Data: Data that can be restored or reproduced from original sources if lost, such as operating system files or installable software.
Data Criticality: A measure of how essential data is to business operations, used to prioritize backup and recovery efforts.
Backup Window: The scheduled period of time during which a backup operation is performed, which must be managed to minimize disruption to systems and users.

Topics

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