Question

The ABC Company runs two shifts, from 8:00 AM to midnight. Backups and system maintenance are performed between midnight and 8:00 AM. For each of the following scenarious, determine whether the company's current backup procedures enable it to meet its recovery objectives, and explain why

1) Recovery point objective = 24 hours

Daily backups at 3:00 AM, process takes 2 hours

Copy of backup tapes picked up daily at 8:00 AM for storage off-site.

Answer 1

No, the company's current backup procedure will not enable it to meet its recovery objective.

Explanation:

Since, the backup tapes are picked up daily at 8:00 AM for storage off site, in case of fire or other similar incident destroys the data enter before 8:00 AM. Both copies of the most recent daily backup would have been destroyed as the disaster happened before the backup tapes were picked for storage off site at 8:00 AM.

So, all the data after the backup made on previous day will be lost. For example, a fire took place at 6:00 friday morning. All the data stored between the previous back up that is at 3:00 AM thursday and 6;00 AM friday will be lost. Data will be lost for 27 hours which is more then their recovery point objective.

So the current procedure wont be able to meet its recovery objective.

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