Backup Policy

James F. Carter, UCLA-Mathnet, 2005-10-21

With the transition to a new operating system and a whole new technology of backup, we need to review and codify our backup policy.

Goals

Issues

Policy

This is jimc's proposed policy for backups:

Implementation Issues

We haven't discussed retention periods, and what goes to tape (versus sitting on Ulanda's RAID), and when this happens. But we need to deal with those issues.