Backup and recovery is a set of data practices that supports the mission of disaster recovery (DR). A backup is a copy of an organization’s data used to replace original data in the event of data loss.
Automatic backup solutions have lessened the burden of managing data storage and recovery, but still attention must be paid to the planning and design of backup operations. A proper disaster recovery plan (DRP) and data retention plan outlines where and how data is to be stored, how many copies, for how long, and how data is to be recovered. Other considerations include if data is stored off-site, on-premise, or in the cloud. Choosing cloud backups can help to lessen management burden as well.