Open AccessComputer (In)security – 2: computer system backup and recovery
Author(s) -
McDowall R.D.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
the quality assurance journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1099-1786
pISSN - 1087-8378
DOI - 10.1002/qaj.143
Subject(s) - backup , backup software , redundancy (engineering) , computer science , data loss , disaster recovery , computer security , data recovery , data security , operating system , encryption
In the second of an occasional series of articles for the QAJ, the author discusses backup of data held on computers, the types of backup that are possible such as full, incremental and differential, and processes for recovery of the data in the event of any file corruption or hardware failure. Backup is key to any successful recovery or disaster recovery process. To mitigate the impact of failure, the use of hardware redundancy is also discussed. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.