Chapter 5 Best Practices
Developing Protection Plans
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can, and most likely will, develop multiple protection plans—as many as
you need. Each one can:
• Have its own name and description
• Protect any combination of files, folders, and hard disk drives—both
local and network-connected—from a single file or folder to all files
and folders on all drives
• Be scheduled to run automatically at any time of day, on any day the
week, month, or year, and even multiple times on the same day
• Access a specific cartridge, or any/all cartridges
With all this operational flexibility, it is generally considered wise to
initially, create and run an “Everything” plan that will protect all files and
folders on all of your hard drives. Schedule this plan to run with
whatever frequency you feel comfortable with.
Then, evaluate your computer’s file structure, the types of files, and the
frequency of updates and new file creation activities and develop
multiple protection plans to fit the operational aspects of your business.
Supporting Subsequent
Restore Operations
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Consider all of the different things that you might need from a recovery
operation, and then tailor a new plan to provide each of those
requirements.
Yes, you can always recover any file from an Everything type backup, but
protection plans that target specific file or folder types will run much
more quickly because they won’t be constantly scanning all of your fixed-
type files for changes.
Supporting Multiple
GoVault Cartridges
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If you need to protect more data than can fit on a single cartridge, or if
you have unique kinds of data that can be assigned to two or more
cartridges, develop a different protection plan for each. Consider, for
example, backing up:
• Files with predominantly fixed content on one cartridge, files with
predominantly dynamic content on another
• Files associated with specific products, projects, or customers, or
groups of them on a specific cartridge