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Restoring backups

Restoring backups

From the course: SSCP Cert Prep: 4 Incident Response and Recovery

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Restoring backups

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- [Narrator] Restoring backups happens more often than you might think. When we plan for disaster recovery, we often imagine scenarios where using our backups means that a catastrophic series of events has occurred and we're rebuilding our entire organization from the ground up. The reality is that the most common reason that we restore backups is to correct from human or technical error. Backups play an important fail-safe role in protecting us against accidents, providing a means to restore accidentally deleted files, recovering crashed servers, and handling other unfortunate mishaps. In the larger scenario where backups are being restored as part of a comprehensive disaster recovery effort, we need to approach backups with some prior planning. You might have thousands of servers that you need to restore and the order of restoration can be quite significant. You want to prioritize the most important services for…

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