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Database Backup and Recovery

Ensuring Data Availability

Backup and recovery procedures protect organizations against accidental deletion, hardware failures, cyberattacks, and natural disasters. Effective recovery minimizes downtime and prevents permanent data loss.

  • Full backups.
  • Incremental backups.
  • Differential backups.
  • Recovery testing.
  • Off-site backup storage.
Tip
A backup is valuable only if it can be successfully restored.
Summary
Regular backups and tested recovery procedures are essential for business continuity.