JKLPROD backup strategy

JKLPROD is the system that JKL uses for all of their customer orders and where their business applications are installed (inventory control, customer orders, contracts and pricing, accounts receivable).



Right now their website is static, so customers place orders by phone or e-mail. The phone hours are 8 a.m. through 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; if a customer wishes to place an order outside of those hours, they can send an e-mail.

The information on this system is extremely critical to their business, so it is important that they do frequent backups. Sharon has scheduled a full system backup to start every Saturday night at midnight. She used the *System policy that came with BRMS to do these backups. Since there is a large amount of data that is backed up on this system, Sharon determined that she couldn't do an unattended backup. A system operator would have to be there to change tapes during the backup. Sharon is planning on writing a proposal to her manager asking for a tape library which would eliminate the need for an operator to be present during the full backups.

During the week, she backs up all changed user data using the *Bkugrp policy that came with BRMS. She overrides the default full backup with an incremental backup, which means that every night she backs up the changes since the previous night's incremental backup.