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Sample back up rota

By Lasa Information Systems Team

The importance of backing up the data on your computers cannot be overestimated. Although this sample rota refers to tape drives, it is equally applicable to smaller organisations without a server who do backups on other media such as CDs or Zip Disks.

Sample Back up Rota

Tape backups of Lasa servers are made every evening. The backup schedule is as follows:

• There are four tapes for days of the week - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
• For Tuesdays, there are a further four tapes - for the second Tuesday of the month, the third Tuesday, and so on.
• There are five more tapes, each for the first Tuesday of month - these get overwritten every five months.

This schedule enables the restoration of data from the previous evening or from five months ago as required.

A further backup of the Lasa database data file is made twice a week. Tuesday tapes for the previous two weeks are taken off site. Restoring files from tapes is tested each month.

Responsibility for backups rests with a named person / post and in the absence of that person, a named deputy.