Data Recovery and Backup by Vansh and Rohit
What is Data Backup and Recovery? Backup and Recovery is a process of creating and planning copies of data that can be used to protect against data losses. Recovery from a data backup is restoring data to its original location or any remote location. A backup copy can be stored in a separate system, such as tape to protect against the possibility of data loss due to primary hardware or software failure. fig 1 Why do we need to Back up our data? The main aim of doing a backup for our data is to create an exact copy of our existing data so that it can be recovered in the event of primary data failure. Primary data failure can be caused by the corruption of data, virus attacks, accidental deletion of data, or, most commonly by primary hardware or software failure. Keeping the copy data on a separate medium is important to protect against any kind of data loss. This alternate medium can act as an external hard drive or a cloud. The separate medium can be in the same or g...