Backup and Recovery

Backup and recovery protects data through copies and enables restoration after data loss or corruption.

What is Backup and Recovery?

Backup and recovery encompasses the processes and technologies for creating copies of data that can be restored in case of data loss, corruption, or disaster.

Backup types

Full, Incremental, Differential, Synthetic full.

Common misconceptions

"Cloud eliminates backup need" — Still need backup strategy
"RAID is backup" — Protects against drive failure only
"Daily backup is always enough" — RPO determines frequency