Creating Clean Backups Task
Conditions
Establish a plan to prevent/recover from an incident escalating to a disaster.
Standards
Create back-ups to minimize downtime in a catastrophic event using the 3-2-1 rule.
End State
Notes
Manual Steps
- Make three copies of every piece of important data so that no single event will wipeout all the data.
- Make two different formats such as external media, network, cloud.
- Keep one copy offsite in case of physical disasters like theft, fire, earthquake, etc.
Running Scripts
Dependencies
References
NIST Guide to General Server Security
SANS Backup Whitepaper
CISA Data Backup Options
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