Disaster Management Plan and Data Backup Strategy for Skillage I.T.

This report presents a disaster management plan tailored for Skillage I.T., focusing on data backup and recovery strategies. It identifies potential threats to crucial data, including data loss, leakage, and corruption, and specifies applications and files requiring backup, such as database applications, desktop settings, consumer support files, and financial data. The report addresses legislative and regulatory constraints on data, outlining key reasons for the backup strategy and schedule, which includes daily tape backups with specific file types and locations. Furthermore, it details risk mitigation strategies for user documents, system redundancy, and failover techniques, such as using various tape types, implementing different backups for system redundancy, and employing Enterprise Cache Protocol (ECP) for failover. The report also provides references to relevant books and online resources.

Disaster Management

Table of Contents
TASKS ............................................................................................................................................1
Threats that could impact any of the important data..............................................................1
Applications and files that needs backup..............................................................................1
Which, if any, data listed as important may be subject to legislative or regulatory constraints?
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Key reasons behind the backup strategy and schedule...........................................................1
Enter the planned schedule in the following table..................................................................2
Risk Mitigation Strategies for user documents, systems redundancy and failover techniques2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

TASKS
Threats that could impact any of the important data
In order to make a disaster recovery plan in respect of storing information, it is important
to determine the threats that can influence the presence of indispensable data. Some of main
threats associated with crucial facts and figures of an organisation are listed below :
 Loss of complete information.
 Leaking of confidential data.
 Significant info associated with customers may get corrupted.
Applications and files that needs backup
Main applications as well as files that require to be backed up are mentioned below :
 Workers of Skillage I.T. generally depend on data base online applications, they should
create a backup for the same (Alazawi and et. al., 2011).
 Every users of this corporation is using desktop settings and application dashboards thus
backup of these applications is also needed.
 Skillage I.T. is offering consumer supports, therefore files affiliated with this system is
required to be stored as a backup.
 Financial information also requires to be backed up since it will be used at the end of
financial year.
Which, if any, data listed as important may be subject to legislative or regulatory constraints?
Following are some subjects that are considered as important under legislation:
 Billing data for particular financial year.
 Data related to customer support.
 Information affiliated with workers.
Key reasons behind the backup strategy and schedule
The main reasons of applying backup scheme and scheduling are following :
 To store the copy of eminent data for future use.
 Prevention from loss of information during occurrence of natural disasters.
 Easy to share and access of data in case of need from anywhere.
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Enter the planned schedule in the following table
Day Tape # B/Up Type Location Comment Archive
M TAPE#001 .SQL AD.11 Software team Archive
T TAPE#002 .SQL AA.21 Finance
department
Archive
W TAPE#003 .SQL AM.23 Network
association
Archive
Th TAPE#004 .SQL/.dbm AM.24 Server storage Archive
F TAPE#005 .EXE AD.21 Cloud data Archive
S TAPE#006 .docx AW.23 Operational
information
Archive
Sunday TAPE#007 .docx AV.24 Clients
information
Archive
Risk Mitigation Strategies for user documents, systems redundancy and failover techniques
The risk mitigation plan of action are explained as follows :
 Company should use various kinds of tapes such as magnetic tape, digital data storage
tapes, etc. for storing the documents belonging to users in order to minimise the risk of
loosing data (Laudon and Laudon, 2016).
 Skillage I.T. needs to use different backups. For examples variants tapes, for removing
the danger of data corruption in case of system redundancy (Data Backup Strategy: 7
Considerations, 2018).
 In case of failover technique, firm can implement ECP (Enterprise Cache Protocol) as a
strategy for providing a cover of insulation between the database server and users
(Marchewka, 2014).
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REFERENCES
Books and journal
Alazawi, Z. and et. al., 2011, August. Intelligent disaster management system based on cloud-
enabled vehicular networks. In ITS Telecommunications (ITST), 2011 11th
International Conference on (pp. 361-368). IEEE.
Laudon, K. C. and Laudon, J. P., 2016. Management information system. Pearson Education
India.
Marchewka, J. T., 2014. Information technology project management. John Wiley & Sons.
Van De Walle, B., Turoff, M. and Hiltz, S. R., 2014. Information systems for emergency
management. Routledge.
Online
Data Backup Strategy: 7 Considerations. 2018. [Online]. Available
through<https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/data-backup-strategy-7-
considerations/2018824628>.
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