Data Backups
A strategic guide to improve your database security with backups
In this guide, we help you build a comprehensive backup strategy to meet your requirements in terms of data protection and recovery times. We will dive into the technical considerations you need to analyse to decide when and how to generate your backups, where to store them and how to validate them. You will find valuable insights to protect your data from human, software or hardware failures including the ones resulting from malicious users as in ransomware attacks.
Key topics include:
- Backup related terminology
- Backup related Service Level Agreements
- Storage solutions to consider for your backups
- Backup types and their use cases
- Backup scheduling considerations
- Backup validation strategies
- Backup retention
- Backup cost optimisation
- Securing the backups
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Introduction to open source databases