5.12-Creating Clean Backups
Creating Clean Backups Task¶
Conditions¶
Establish a plan to prevent/recover from an incident escalating to a disaster.
Standards¶
Create back-ups to minimize downtime in a catastrophic event using the 3-2-1 rule.
End State¶
Notes¶
Manual Steps¶
- Make three copies of every piece of important data so that no single event will wipeout all the data.
- Make two different formats such as external media, network, cloud.
- Keep one copy offsite in case of physical disasters like theft, fire, earthquake, etc.
Running Scripts¶
Dependencies¶
References¶
NIST Guide to General Server Security
SANS Backup Whitepaper
CISA Data Backup Options