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DATABASE_BackupPolicy

The document outlines the importance of database backups to prevent data loss due to system failures or user errors, detailing a backup schedule that includes full, differential, and log backups. Full backups occur weekly, differential backups daily, and log backups every two hours, with a typical duration of two hours and no expected downtime. Additionally, it specifies the retention periods for each backup type, ensuring effective data management.

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DATABASE_BackupPolicy

The document outlines the importance of database backups to prevent data loss due to system failures or user errors, detailing a backup schedule that includes full, differential, and log backups. Full backups occur weekly, differential backups daily, and log backups every two hours, with a typical duration of two hours and no expected downtime. Additionally, it specifies the retention periods for each backup type, ensuring effective data management.

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Detailed Description:

Backups
Backing up the database is important activity in case of system or hardware failure
(or user errors) that cause to be damaged in some way, thus require backed up copy to be
restored. This task allows to perform full, differential, transaction log file backups
Schedule Time: Daily (Based on Database Backup Policy).

Downtime: No (usually).
Duration: 2 hours (approx. based on current size)
Note: may require downtime if major security issue/ OS patch update.
Database Backup:
There are 3 different user Database Backup plan.
a) Full Back up: Weekly Sunday 00:00 hr.
b) Differential Backup: Daily 01:00 hr.
c) Log Backup: for every 2 hr.

Purge backup history


Backup type Period Retentions Period

1) Full Database Backup weekly 2 weeks


2) Differential Database Backup Daily 1 week
3) Log Database Backup Hourly Last day log backup

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