Service Includes:

• Nightly incremental backups
• Creation of weekly synthetic full backup
• Two weeks of full and incremental backups online for quick restores
• Four weekly full backups maintained offsite
• A web based console to perform restores
• Accounts for the director of technology and two alternate staff members of the district to perform restores
• A daily email to designated district staff members with information on the status of the remote server backups
• Annual user meetings will be held to discuss district concerns and data management best practices.
  

Extensions to the Service

• Critical workstations can be backed up.
• Email servers can be backed up with a client that will allow message level recovery.
• Point in time backups can be taken on critical files such as student and financial databases.
• Data retention online can be extended allowing for quick restores over a greater amount of time.

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District Based Backups

Tape drives need to be replaced on average every three years either because of breakage or the need for increased capacity. 30% of the tapes used will fail. This percentage is increased with prolonged use of the tape media. Tapes should be replaced yearly. The backup jobs need to be checked daily and restarted if necessary. Tapes need to be maintained offsite in a secure location. Restoring files can take as much as four hours from tape.

Centralized Backups

Backups are taken to disk and the capacity grows as needed. Once backed up to disk, tape copies are made which reduces chance of failure. Backup jobs are monitored and restarted as needed. The initial backup to disk is by its nature offsite. Because the backed up data is kept online for two weeks, restores can happen in minutes.