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Backing up is one thing, what about your restores?
As further redundancies are inflicted on the financial sector, computer forensics firm Kroll Ontrack is warning companies of the risks of not backing up data on redundant computers and other hardware.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research has predicted 62,000 job losses in the UK’s financial sector alone by the end of 2009, and computer forensics specialists are warning that companies may not have the necessary resources to adequately back up data from computers.
With each device requiring anywhere between two and six hours of work to image contents, the financial sector alone could collectively require a quarter of a million human hours to complete the task, said Kroll.
Though redundancies have been most rife in the financial sector, the issue of preserving data is one that could affect companies in other sectors that are highly regulated.
Data integrity is a topic that is going to be an ongoing issue and debate regardless of the sector, establishing which systems need to be backed up and to what level is the ‘cost of doing business’ in terms of liability and delivery. Refreshing these requirements, testing the availability and quality of the restores is just as important, I can back data to tape, to disk or DVD, but can I restore it? At the same time we need to understand the different regulations regarding personal and private or sensitive data, how do we manage the need to deliver that urgent restore whilst manage our exposure in terms of following process, obtaining the correct sign off etc.
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