Analyzing Research Methodologies for Effective Backup & Recovery

This report delves into the research methodologies employed in formulating a backup and disaster recovery plan. It highlights the use of research methodologies to address identified research questions and understand existing backup and recovery strategies. The report emphasizes the application of descriptive research design for data collection through secondary sources, analyzing disk-based and cloud-based backup performance. Qualitative research techniques are used to capture non-numerical data, focusing on data processing, analysis, and limitations such as time constraints and participant motivation. The study concludes by summarizing the actions performed to organize and transform data into a proper output form, ensuring data utility and integrity for better quality results and modeling.

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Research Methodologies used in Backup and disaster recovery plan TR methodology
Into the backup and disaster recovery plan, research methodology is used for formulating
the identified research questions to provide a clear picture of the experimental gap. The methods
are used for gaining knowledge about existing backup as well as recovery strategies and
challenges into the enterprise (Taylor, Bogdan, & DeVault, 2015). Application of the research
methodology helps to understand methods which are adopted to analyze the research of the
customers into decision making. In this methodology paper, the researcher articulates the
methods which are chosen to investigate the research problems. It articulates the reasons why the
researcher has chosen the particular procedures as well as techniques to perform the research
study.
Research Design
Lewis (2015) stated that research design is referred to the strategy which is integrated
into various components of research study into logical way. It ensures to address the research
problem which is identified into the problem statement. It contributes to blueprint to collect
measure as well as analyze the data. There are three types of research design such as exploratory,
descriptive in addition to explanatory (Tyler, 2017). Exploratory research design is intended to
explore research questions as well as it is not intended to provide final as well as conclusive
solutions to the existing problems. This particular research design is conducted to study the
problems which are not evidently defined. This research intends to provide with conclusive
evidence, but it helps to better understand the problems. The aim of this research design is to
give final as well as conclusive answers to identified research questions (Gast, & Ledford, 2014).
Descriptive research design is used for describing accurately the facts of the provided population

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and area of interest. Explanatory research design is focused on why questions. It is conducted for
the problems that are not researched before, and it is provided a better researched models. This
particular research design starts with the general idea as well as it uses of research as tool to
perform the research.
Based on selected research topic, descriptive research design approach is recommended
to use. Descriptive research design is the study which is designed to depict the participants into
proper way. Mackey and Gass (2015) argued that this research design approach is used for
obtaining information concerned with the current status of phenomenon and then describe with
respect to the variables furthermore conditions into the situation. Throughout process of the data
collection, this approach is applied to better describe the backup and recovery plan.
Into the selected research design approach, it provides a blueprint to measure the data by
the experimental as well as observational means. Descriptive design is considered as
observational study which is required to find out the characteristics of the population those are
going to interview and take the online survey. It explores the selected research topic into
additional information (Cicourel, 2016). It provides a complete research to add information on
the backup as well as recovery plan. This particular research study provides an outline to
undertake the selected research study into accurate in addition to efficient manner so that a
proper plan is created for the backup as well as recovery system so that an organization
implemented a proper backup plan to manage the disaster.
Data Processing and Analysis
Data Collection Method: At first the data are collected and then it is measured data in
variables of the researcher’s interest. The collection of data is taken as a proper way which

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enable researcher to gather data based on provided research questions to conduct the study.
There are two types of data collection method such as primary as well as secondary data. The
primary data is collected using the methods such as interview as well as questionnaire. An online
survey is conducted with the professionals into a specific field to search for the challenges faced
by the professionals. Online questionnaire is to be prepared and distributed with the experts.
Secondary research is done for increasing the sampling size of the research studies with use of
existing resources. In this particular research study, secondary data collection method is used. It
is referred to the data where the data are collected by someone other than the researcher. The
data are available from other sources and it has been used in previous research, makes the
research work easier to carry out the work (Silverman, 2016). It is a pre-established degree of
validity as well as reliability that are not re-examined by the researcher to use the data. A disk
based backup and recovery is conducted as well as analyzed on performance scale while the
values are compared with the values with cloud based backup as well as recovery plan which are
deployed into similar network (Flick, 2015). This research study is dealt with understanding the
methodology for the backup as well as recovery into the enterprise.
Data Techniques: There are two different types of data techniques such as qualitative
and quantitative. Qualitative approaches are aimed to address how as well as why the program as
well as tend to use of unstructured methods of the data collection to explore the research topic.
This technique is good for explore the effects as well as unintended consequences of the
program. Quantitative approaches are used as it is cheaper for implementation, and standardized
to compare which are made as well as size of the effects are measured. This data technique is
used to gather the statistical data which are recorded from sample of population. It is the
numerical analysis of the collected data throughout survey and manipulating them into statistical

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data. In this particular study, qualitative research design is used for capturing of ideas as well as
information into non-numerical ways. It is a systematic research method where the researcher
can examine the specific phenomenon of the natural settings.
Data Analysis Method: Data processing as well as analysis is consisted of capturing as
well as achieving of data. It also translates the data into friendly formats (Gast, & Ledford,
2014). The secondary data are analyzed which are already gathered by someone. The data are
analyzed which involve to collect, review as well as draw of the conclusions from the research
findings. It provides a cost effective way to gain broad understanding of the research questions.
It is helpful to design the primary research and provide a baseline to compare the primary data
(Smith, 2015). The secondary data analysis as well as review is involved to collect as well as
analyze the array of the information. The data sources which are used for the secondary data are
official statistics, technical reports, scholarly journals, articles from the literature review as well
as trade journals.
Research Limitations
This research study helps to expand the research results which form different research
limitations. It also defines of restricted scope of the research. There are various limitations of the
research study such as there is time constraint. The researcher has limited time to conduct the
research. As this study is cross sectional, therefore detailed analysis is not probable. The
participants those are involved into the study are not concerned into motivational factors. The
management team does not motivate them to provide the research findings. Therefore, reliability
is a top concern for the study.

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Summary
It is summarized that data processing are the actions which are performed to organize as
well as transform along with extract the data into proper output form. Methods which are used
into this research study are ensured on utility as well as integrity of the data. The data are
analyzed which helps to describe the facts, detect the patterns along with development of the
explanations. It is concluded that the data are of better quality and modeling the results.
Descriptive research design approach is being used to conduct the study to answer the research
questions which are identified into the study.

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