A typical Backup Strategy

Gapfill exercise

  

Read through the text titled Example: A Typical backup scheme on p12 of the Heinemann IT Textbook to give you a background knowledge on how to complete this exercise. Enter your answers in the gaps. When you have entered all the answers, click on the "Check" button.

   2003      FEB      FRI      FRI      INCREMENTAL      JAN      THUR      TUES      TUES      WED      WEEK 1      WEEK 1      WEEK 2      WEEK 3   

Monday 1 - tape inserted, full backup completed
Tuesday 1 - tape removed and tape inserted, only files changed since Monday's back up are copied (This is an backup)
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 1 - , and tapes inserted, INCREMENTAL backup done on each day
Monday 2 - tape inserted, full backup done
Tuesday 2 - Friday 2 - - tapes reused for new incremental backup
Monday 3 - tape inserted, full backup completed
Tuesday 3 - as for Tuesday 2
Monday 4 - tape inserted, full backup completed
Tuesday 4 - Friday 7 - daily and weekly tapes are reused throughout January
Monday 8 - Tape inserted , full backup completed
Whole process is repeated all year, until ...
Monday 52 - tape inserted - this is the annual backup
JAN to DEC, MON - TUE and WEEK 1 - 3 tapes are reused each month
This process continues all year. At the end of the year, the Monday
backup is done to a tape labelled ‘2003’ – this is the annual backup. The
January to December tapes are reused during the year.