IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue - Communications Remarks
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S 6.35 Stipulating data backup procedures
Initiation responsibility: IT Security Management
Implementation responsibility: IT Security Management, IT Procedures
Officer
The process governing how data backups are to be made is determined by the
influential factors set forth in S 6.34 Determining the factors influencing data
backup. Data backup procedures must be stipulated for every IT system and
type of data. If necessary, even individual applications of the IT system should
be distinguished should they require different data backup strategies; this is
particularly applicable to mainframe computers.
The following methods of making data backups should be considered when
determining a backup system:
- Type of data backup
- Frequency and time of the data backup
- Number of generations
- Procedure and storage medium
- Responsibility for data backup
- Storage site
- Requirements concerning the data backup archive
- Transport modes
- Storage modes
The dependency between data backup modes and influential factors is shown
in the following table:
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000