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Companies can and should secure all electronic components with a surge

protector or UPS. This includes personal computers—the obvious choice—

and switches, WAPs, and routers. Every server should run on its own UPS to

protect the valuable contents of drives (like you saw in Figure 27-1 in the

previous chapter).

Backup and Recovery Procedures

Techs help users and the organization maintain data using well-known and

reliable backup procedures. When things go south, techs implement recovery

procedures to get users back up and running as quickly as possible.

Backup Options

Specific backup technologies and processes are covered in detail in Chapter

14, “Maintaining and Optimizing Operating Systems.” This section focuses

on broader questions like what to back up, where to put it, and how long to

keep older backups. There aren’t perfect answers to these questions for

everyone—the answers depend on a ton of factors, including how you work,

what kind of data you work with, how critical the data is, how fast it changes,

what kind of problems you need to recover from, how quickly you need to be

back up and running, and how much money you can throw at the problem.

All of the choices involve trade-offs between the risk of data loss on one

hand and convenience, cost, and effort on the other. A few things are true no

matter how you do it:

• Lots of copies keep stuff safe. They also cost more and increase the

odds of a data leak.

• Much as investors limit risk by diversifying their investment portfolio,

you can reduce the risk of data loss by taking separate backups with

more than one backup program, keeping copies in different regions,

and storing them on a mix of different hardware.

• Storing backups off-site reduces the risk of complete loss, but it also

increases the time it takes to recover unless you also keep a local copy.

• Automatic backups take a little more work to set up, but they beat the

socks off manual backups once you’ve got everything ironed out.

Manual backups are better than nothing, but people will forget to do

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