Backing Up Your Data

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Backing Up Your Data

• External Device Backup Server Backup

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What is considered data?

• Text files
• Audio/Video files
• Database (Access Files)
• Executable files
• Email archives

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Types of External Backup Devices

• Removable Storage
• External Hard Drives
• USB 2.0 Firewire
• CD-R\RW, DVD
• Zip Drives
• USB Flash Drives

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Hard Drives

• How They Work
• Internal Features
• Read/Write
• Why They Fail
• Physical
• Logical

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Advantages Disadvantages of External Backup
Devices

• Advantages
• Backup Copy of important information
• Transport Data
• Store software or data not accessed often
• Ease of data sharing
• Store Audio and Video

• Disadvantages
• Susceptible to elements and magnetic fields that
  can destroy data External device becomes corrupt
• Losing small USB jump drives
• CDs, Zips or Floppies going bad
• Not to be used as main or only backup
• Cost of repairing or recovering lost data

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DLS Server Backup

• Full backup of all DLS servers
• Incremental backups
• Email account backup

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Advantages of using Server Backup

• Data is kept secure
• Quick Data retrieval
• Not likely to lose data
• Data is available on any domain machine due to
  profile roaming
• My Documents
• Shared Drives
• Disaster recovery